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Cornerstone '99 offers disaster action plan for electrical distributors

Jan. 1, 2003
Last year's ice storms, flood and hurricanes put the emergency preparedness of electrical distributors to the test. To help Pass & Seymour/Legrand distributors

Last year's ice storms, flood and hurricanes put the emergency preparedness of electrical distributors to the test. To help Pass & Seymour/Legrand distributors be ready for any natural disasters that may occur in the future, the Syracuse, N.Y.-based company is offering participants in its Cornerstone program a seven-days-a-week, 24-hours-a-day Disaster Action plan.

The program allows distributors to reach the Pass & Seymour emergency response team on an 800-telephone number and have their order filled immediately from the nearest Pass & Seymour warehouse at no charge. The plan applies to all products, and no purchase order is required.

"In light of some very severe weather conditions that have struck in the past year, we think it's vital to offer this type of program and further enhance our commitment to our Cornerstone distributors," says Bob Smith, vice president of sales and marketing for Pass & Seymour/Legrand. "Now, even under emergency conditions, our Cornerstone distributors will be able to get our products to their customers."

About the Author

Doug Chandler | Senior Staff Writer

Doug has been reporting and writing on the electrical industry for Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing since 1992 and still finds the industry’s evolution and the characters who inhabit its companies endlessly fascinating. That was true even before e-commerce, LED lighting and distributed generation began to disrupt so many of the electrical industry’s traditional practices.

Doug earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Kansas after spending a few years in KU’s William Allen White School of Journalism, then deciding he absolutely did not want to be a journalist. In the company of his wife, two kids, two dogs and two cats, he spends a lot of time in the garden and the kitchen – growing food, cooking, brewing beer – and helping to run the family coffee shop.

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