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    CamBar buys Main Electrical Equipment

    Aug. 1, 2003
    Cameron & Barkley Co. (CamBar), Charleston, S.C., agreed to acquire all outstanding capital stock of Main Electrical Equipment Co., Louisville, Ky. Main

    Cameron & Barkley Co. (CamBar), Charleston, S.C., agreed to acquire all outstanding capital stock of Main Electrical Equipment Co., Louisville, Ky. Main Electrical Equipment, with 1998 sales of approximately $12 million, has locations in Louisville and Lexington, Ky. "Main is a long-term, first-rate industrial company," said CamBar Executive Vice President Joel Bateman. "It (the acquisition of Main) will grow our business. We have a good industrial supply presence up there. The strength of what Main will do for us will enhance that dramatically. We can also help Main somewhat."

    CamBar and Main Electrical Equipment will "make the best use" of both names in the market, Bateman said.

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    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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