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    Kendall Electric buys Fischer-Flack

    June 1, 2003
    Kendall Electric Inc. purchased Fischer-Flack Inc., Saginaw, Mich. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Both Kendall Electric, Battle Creek, Mich.,

    Kendall Electric Inc. purchased Fischer-Flack Inc., Saginaw, Mich. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

    Both Kendall Electric, Battle Creek, Mich., and Fischer-Flack are authorized distributors for Allen-Bradley, a division of Rockwell Automation. Allen-Bradley declined to say whether Kendall Electric would get the Area of Primary Responsibility (APR) for Fischer-Flack.

    Kendall Electric, with 19 locations in Michigan and Indiana and 435 employees going into the deal, adds three locations and 67 employees covering northeast lower Michigan. The Fischer-Flack locations are in Alpena and Midland, as well as the corporate headquarters in Saginaw. Fischer-Flack specializes in serving the industrial automation market.

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    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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