SALISBURY 150 YEARS OLD - STILL SETTING STANDARDS
Appearing in catalogs, advertising and logos since the early part of the 20 th century, Salisbury now reaches 150 years of continuous service.
Established in 1855 when Chicago was little more than a frontier town, a small store opened that dealt exclusively in rubber goods. The early part of the 20 th century saw the rise in maintenance of electrical distribution, which led Salisbury to develop and manufacture many of the rubber safety products still used by utility line workers and contractors.
Today, Salisbury is setting standards in the industrial marketplace by offering the most complete selection of arc flash and arc flash related products. From protective clothing to tools, to complete kits including arc flash clothing, electrical insulating gloves and storage products to maximize the life of the equipment.
Still going strong at 150 years. Salisbury – setting industry standards since 1855.
John Corey Joins CLS Manchester Operation As Sales Representative for Southern Maine
Westwood, Massachusetts-based CLS recently announced John Corey has joined the company as Sales Representative in the company’s Manchester, New Hampshire location. He will service CLS’ electrical contracting customers in the Portland/ Southern Maine area. Previously, Mr. Corey owned Industrial Electric Supply of East Newport and Baileyville, Maine.
“Having owned his own electrical supply company, John clearly understands our customers’ needs, and the importance of CLS’ commitment to customer service,” said Bob Compagna, President and CEO of CLS. “We are pleased to add a seasoned professional of John’s caliber to our team in Southern Maine.”
CLS Opens New Facility in Bridgewater, MA
CLS recently announced the company has opened a new distribution center in Bridgewater, MA. The 8,500 square foot facility marks the 19 th location for CLS in New England, and is conveniently located at 15 Scotland Boulevard, just 14 miles from the junction of Routes 24 and 104 in Bridgewater, and serving the neighboring towns of Abington, Brockton, Halifax, Hanson, Kingston, Middleboro Raynham, Rockland, and Whitman.
The Bridgewater facility will feature a full inventory of the company’s market-leading products. Like all CLS locations, the Bridgewater site will be open from 6 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 7 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. Service and support include CLS’ Midnight Express ™ overnight delivery service – guaranteeing delivery to the jobsite by 6 a.m., 1-800-LITES-OUT ™ one-hour Emergency Service Hotline, and the CLS Service Guarantee of the top 200 items in stock at all locations, all the time, 100% order accuracy, will-calls ready on time, every time, and credit on stock material returns issued within one business day.
Saft Receives Double Honors from Frost & Sullivan: 2005 Battery Company of the Year Award and 2005 Award for Technology Innovation
2005 awards presented to Saft for excellence in the industrial battery arena
Saft announced it has received the 2005 Battery Company of the Year Award for excellence in the industrial battery arena from Frost & Sullivan. The company received the award based on various factors including the company’s business development, competitive strategy, and customer service leadership. The award is presented each year to the company that has demonstrated unparalleled excellence within its industry.
Frost & Sullivan also presented Saft with the 2005 Technology Innovation Award in the world industrial secondary lithium battery markets based on its work with the Intensium ® telecom backup battery . This award is presented annually to the company that has demonstrated technological superiority within its industry and recognizes the ability to successfully develop and introduce new technologies to make significant product performance contributions to the industry.
“Following an exhaustive review process , this award is bestowed on the company that successfully develops a product that is believed to provide a unique set of benefits over existing products on the market,” said Dhiraj Ajmani, healthcare industry manager with Frost & Sullivan.
“As the world leader in the specialized battery market, we have an obligation to set the standard for technological innovation,” said John Searle, Saft’s president and CEO. “Receiving this award underscores our commitment to research and innovation.”
The two awards will be presented to Saft during the 2005 Excellence in Industrial Technologies Awards banquet, held today in Naples, Florida at the Registries Resort & Club.
Intensium is a 1U rack-mount lithium-ion (Li-Ion) battery system for backup battery applications. The Li-Ion chemistry by virtue has a high energy and power density, lacks memory effect, and is also environment-friendly. Due to its high power density, fewer numbers of cells need to be used to supply a given amount of power, thereby drastically reducing the weight and also ensuring the device is of a compact footprint. Saft has adopted an extensive five-level redundant safety design for Intensium, so it can withstand abusive conditions that industrial batteries have to be subjected to constantly.
Leviton Manufacturing Helps Long Island Father Rebuild Dream of Homeownership after Family Tragedy
The Leviton Manufacturing Company, North America’s largest producer of electrical and electronic wiring devices , joined with a large number of corporate sponsors to help a young widower and his family on a special 2-hour “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” that aired last month on the ABC network. The poignant story of how a community rallied behind Suffolk County Police Officer John Vitale to carry out a promise he made with his wife to raise their family in a home the two planned to renovate propelled the small town of St. James, New York to national stardom.
Police Officer John Vitale’s wife, Anne Marie, succumbed to leukemia and was buried on what would have been her 29 th birthday. “Makeover” host Ty Pennington and other cast members were in tears as they watched a video of the late Anne Marie dancing at a girlfriend’s wedding only weeks before she lost her valiant battle with cancer. Officer Vitale and his three young boys had taken up residence with his in-laws after his wife's medical bills exhausted the family's savings. ABC sent Officer Vitale and his sons on a weeklong vacation to Park City, Utah to ski and relax. They returned home to find their home rebuilt from the ground up so that it was 2 ½ times its original size. The remodelled home was replete with a custom-tailored bedroom for each of his sons, a giant outdoor play area that included a castle and moat, a hidden-away relaxation room for Officer Vitale with a full bar located off the master bedroom, a giant bath with super-sized hot tub and other distinctive amenities.
“Watching the Long Island community mobilize to help this family in dire straits was a formidable experience for all of us at Leviton who participated on the project, said William Fodor, Director of Distribution Marketing for Leviton. “With such an extremely tight schedule and so many trades involved, you might expect the site to be tense and stressful but that was not at all the case. I have never before witnessed such an overwhelmingly positive work environment and spirit of cooperation, dedication and goodwill.”
Leviton contributed its structured cabling system to the Vitale’s new home, including the Leviton Decora® camera. Typically referred to as a “nanny cam,” the Decora camera makes it easy for Officer Vitale to monitor his children's whereabouts and activities from multiple locations throughout his home. The cameras were installed in four separate areas throughout the Vitales’ palatial 2,400 square foot home. The low-profile camera offers high-resolution CMOS-based color and features a precision 3.5mm wide-angle, fixed-focus, high-resolution lens that eliminates the need for constant readjustment – an important consideration in difficult-access locations. The wall-mounted camera is fitted with a Decora wallplate and blends with Leviton’s full line of Decora wiring devices and dimmers.
Other Leviton structured cabling system components installed in the Vitale's home included whole house phone, television and high speed Internet access with computer networking capabilities, as well as Leviton’s IllumaTech® dimmers and Decora receptacles and wallplates.
Fodor added, “You could see by the quality of the craftsmanship that everyone on the jobsite gave this family their best work. The level of fine detail built into this home is truly amazing, considering the project was competed in 5 days. Leviton was so pleased to participate in this project and be able to help give this young family a new beginning and stable home environment.”
MGE UPS SYSTEMS, INC. Receives Frost & Sullivan’s Product Line Strategy Leadership Award
MGE’s Comprehensive Power Protection Product Line Addresses a Wide Range of Applications
MGE UPS SYSTEMS INC. recently announced it has been awarded Frost & Sullivan’s prestigious 2005 Product Line Strategy Leadership Award. With this Award, Frost & Sullivan recognizes MGE’s insight into customer needs and product requirements. In 2004, MGE successfully optimized its product lines by leveraging products with the best price, performance and feature-sets required by today’s diverse markets.
“MGE UPS SYSTEMS has established itself as a premium high-quality vendor in the UPS industry. Its extensive product lines include single- and three-phase UPS systems, power management and monitoring software and power distribution systems, which make MGE a total power quality solution provider for mission-critical applications,” said Frost & Sullivan analyst, Aishwarya Ramakrishnan. These factors have contributed to the selection of MGE as the recipient of the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Product Line Strategy Leadership Award.
ez-learn TM Web-Based Electrical Training Joins Top-Notch Vocational Learning Experience with Convenient Anytime, Anywhere Access
Leviton Manufacturing Company’s new ez-learn TM web-based electrical training program offers industry professionals instant on-line access to Leviton’s full suite of web-based electrical training courses. Users can log on from the convenience of their own home or office and have instant on-line access to the borderless classroom-without-walls that is accessible to them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The site is located at www.leviton.com/ezlearn.
The ez-learn training site currently features training courses for Leviton Integrated Networks’ Installer Certification, Video Product Applications, and Telephony and Networking Product Applications, and will soon be populated with additional training courses for Leviton Entertainment & Applications Platform, GFCIs, Basic Electricity, Lighting Controls and DHC products, in addition to other product areas.
According to William Fodor, Leviton’s Director of Distribution Marketing, “Our new classroom-without- walls is designed to provide users with a real-world vocational learning environment that furnishes all the theoretical, technological and practical knowledge they need, along with the skills and abilities required to effectively compete in today’s rapidly evolving electrical industry”.
Each training program features an interactive point-and-click style experience that provides basic instruction on products, features, benefits, applications as well as wiring diagrams. Unlike costly, classroom instructor-led educational programs, ez-learn is free to participants and allows for learning at one’s own pace where and when users choose.
“Leviton’s new ez-learn training site is yet another way in which Leviton offers our customers, industry partners and those desiring to enter the industry a value-added experience that is based on a best of breed, world-class solution,” he added. ez-learn is ideal for Leviton distributors, contractors, specifiers, retailers and other users seeking to enhance their product and applications knowledge. For more information, please visit www.leviton.com.
Leviton and CET Group Enter International Distribution Agreement
The Leviton Manufacturing Company and Sweden’s CET Group (formerly Grundstenen) have entered into a distribution agreement to offer commercial, industrial, and residential solutions for the voice, data, and structured media markets. The relationship, announced at the Elfack conference and trade show last month in Gothenburg, Sweden, will provide Leviton with a strong distribution channel to sell its complete line of low-voltage products throughout Northern Europe and provide CET with a best-of-breed product line they can offer their customers.
Bob Becker, Vice President and General Manager for Leviton Integrated Networks and Controls stated, “We developed a partnership with the CET Group because of their knowledge of the products and markets as well as their experienced management team. This relationship will help us expand our global presence in both the residential and commercial markets and provide us with a financially solid distribution partner that has strong ties to distributor and contractor channels in Northern European, the Baltics, and Russia. We feel confident that this relationship will provide a sizable opportunity for both companies in both the short and longer term.”
CET will aggressively market Leviton’s full complement of commercial voice and data products as well as Leviton Integrated Networks and Controls line of high bandwidth computing, home entertainment and distributed audio, video and security products based on its structured cabling offering. CET will provide customer training, sales, marketing, distribution, technical support and customer service for these products throughout the region.
According to Stefan Felix, President and General Manager of CET Group, “Homeowners would like the comfort of having computers, televisions and phones wherever they desire in their homes. Partnering with the world's largest manufacturer of domestic communication products will give us a formidable market presence that will enable us to serve our customers’ needs and grow our business. The Leviton name is synonymous with quality, which is important to our customers. Leviton’s leadership in the structured cabling market and commercial voice and data market allows us to offer our customers the highest quality products, training and support.”
Gavenda Appointed District Sales Manager for Voice & Data Division, Mid-Atlantic Region
Leviton is pleased to announce the appointment of Rick Gavenda to the position of District Sales Manager for Leviton’s Voice & Data Division, Mid-Atlantic Region. An industry veteran with a formidable background that includes 25 years of electrical industry sales and management experience, Gavenda will oversee sales of the Division’s Mid-Atlantic regional Voice & Data sales representatives: Data Connect, Triad Information Services and Morgan Hill Marketing.
Having joined Leviton in 1986 as a Sales Representative for the company’s Electrical Distribution Division, Gavenda was instrumental in building demand for the company’s line of wiring device and lighting control products in the New Jersey and the Philadelphia markets. He next assumed responsibility for growing sales of Leviton’s structured cabling, home automation and lighting control products in his territories, helping establish these products in the homebuilder and installer markets.
A recipient of numerous salesmanship awards, Gavenda was most recently distinguished as Leviton’s 2004 Mid-Atlantic District Salesman of the Year. For more information, please visit www.leviton.com or www.levitonvoicedata.com.
Hadank Appointed District Sales Manager for Electrical Distribution, Mid-Atlantic Region
Leviton is pleased to announce the appointment of Mike Hadank to the position of Distribution Mid-Atlantic District Sales Manager. Hadank joined Leviton in 1999 as a Construction Sales Representative covering the Southern Illinois, St. Louis and Southern Missouri territories, where he grew sales of Leviton Integrated Networks products during its initial rollout in the marketplace that year. He also played an instrumental role in promoting Leviton Integrated Networks’ Installer Certification Program and numerous other Leviton training programs.
In his new role Hadank will spearhead management of the Mid-Atlantic region’s construction and industrial sales, including the MRO, Construction and Commercial sales environments, as well as oversee sales and marketing management of three outside sales agent firms and a staff of thirteen inside sales representatives.
Before joining Leviton, Hadank worked for the Monarch Food Colors Company, selling solutions to large national accounts and for the Sherwin-Williams Company, where he consistently grew sales as both a branch manager and sales representative. Hadank holds a BS in Marketing from Bradley University and distinguished himself as Leviton’s Salesman of the Year in 2000. He is also a recipient of the Alton Telegraph Guest Columnist Award and the MS Society Corporate Achievement Award. For more information, please visit www.leviton.com.
