KEY DATES IN SUMMIT'S HISTORY
May 1977: Summit Electric Supply is incorporated with the assistance of a loan from the Small Business Administration (SBA) in addition to personal capital. Victor Jury Sr. is listed as company president, David Meredith is vice president and general manager, and Victor Jury Jr. is vice president.
 August 15, 1977: First Service Center opens in Albuquerque, N.M., in rented space with 6,000 square feet at 3317 Girard Blvd. The founders' initial start-up capital was about $400,000. The site was operated by the three founders plus two other employees. Once the store was up and running, it served about 100 customers. At the time, Jury Jr. was 22 years old. "We were founded on hard work, superior customer service, smart people, spirit and pride," Jury Jr. told an industry magazine in 2002. "This continues to be the recipe for our success."
December 31, 1977: Summit ended its first (partial) year in the black, with $408,000 in net sales.
December 31, 1978: Summit ended its second year with about $2 million in net sales.
1979: Service Center in Grants, N.M., opens, becoming the second Summit Service Center.
October 1980: Summit makes it first move, from its original location on Girard Boulevard in Albuquerque to a larger building at 2811 Stanford NE.
1982: Uranium mining operations in western New Mexico take a sharp downturn, and the Service Center in Grants, N.M., closes.
1983: Summit begins offering Associates a Profit Sharing Plan and Trust in addition to a retirement profit-sharing plan.
1983: Summit signs a Just-In-Time (JIT) Systems Contract to service an international manufacturer of computer microchips in Albuquerque. This represents Summit's first venture into JIT service, a business model that would soon be expanded to include contracts with federal government research labs and school systems.
 1983: Summit purchases a branch of Cummins Utility Supply Co. in Farmington, N.M., and opens a new Service Center. The Farmington branch, originally called Summit Supply Co., becomes the second Service Center in operation. Longtime Summit Associate Jerry Perks was the first Service Center Leader, though at the time, his title was simply "manager."
August 1986: Summit signs the first of many Just-In-Time Systems Contracts with Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. Summit agrees to keep Sandia's stock list in its inventory, delivering within 24 hours at a fill-rate of 95 percent or better.
 January 1987: Summit partners with James Stallcup, Sr. to host educational seminars on changes in the National Electrical Code for its customers. These seminars were very popular and are continued in the years to come.
February 1987: Service Center in Dallas, Texas, opens, becoming the third Summit Service Center and first outside the state of New Mexico. Originally, the business was called Sierra Electric Supply.
May 1987: Summit introduces its signature 30 Second Counter Service Guarantee®.
July 31, 1987: Service Center in Farmington, N.M., celebrates move to new facilities at 515 Electric Ave. with an open house attracting 400 customers and vendors. A color TV was the grand prize at a drawing.
 August 15, 1987: Summit, with 76 Associates at three locations, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a three-day celebration in Albuquerque that included a vendors' golf tournament and dinner, and an open-house festival held in the warehouse and in hospitality tents set up in the parking lot. One thousand invitations went out for two evenings of food, drinks and entertainment, featuring country music recording artist Michael Johnson. A three-night vacation in Lake Tahoe was the grand prize.
August 17, 1987: Summit enjoys its first major news coverage, as the Business Outlook (a weekly publication of the Albuquerque Journal newspaper) prints a feature about Summit and its Just In Time service. In the article, Vic Jury Jr. is quoted as saying that JIT service "is eminently logical. It makes no sense for Sandia to maintain stock on their shelves that I have on my shelves."
December 31, 1987: For the first time, Summit surpassed $20 million in net sales.
1988: Summit breaks into the Top 250 ranking of electrical-distributor sales, listed at No. 173 in the magazine Electrical Wholesaling. Summit is the youngest company on the list and the only one in the Southwest.
February 1988: Service Center in Fort Worth, Texas, opens, becoming the fourth Summit Service Center. Summit founder Vic Jury Sr. soon joined the Fort Worth team and conducted his administrative responsibilities from an office at the Service Center.
May 24, 1988: The first edition of "The Summit News" newsletter is distributed to all Service Centers. Future newsletters would be called "The Electrogram" and "SUMMIT UP." The first edition featured a welcome for an inside salesperson in Dallas and a notice that a Farmington Associate had fallen ill with chicken pox.
 February 1989: Summit and its three founders are featured on the cover of Electrical Wholesaling magazine. The article praises Summit's expertise with JIT Systems Contracts, which are hailed as "The Wave of the Future."
September 1989: The IBM Corp. names Summit as an authorized distributor of its industrial personal computers. It's a major step in the advancement of Summit's automation product lines.
1990: Co-founder Victor Jury Sr. announces his retirement. Victor Jury Jr. becomes Summit's president.
 March 1990: Sandia National Laboratories names Summit as its Vendor of the Year among 33 companies with Just-In-Time Systems Contracts with Sandia. Summit provided Sandia with a order fill-rate of better than 99 percent. Associate Vince Kreamer was singled out and applauded for his work with Sandia.
August 1, 1990: The 24,000 square-foot Service Center in El Paso, Texas, opens at 7701 Lockheed, formerly the home of a carpet wholesaler. Jerry Perks is the first manager, moving from the same position in Farmington, and Dale Fuhr is promoted to manage the Farmington site. El Paso becomes the fifth Summit Service Center.
November 1990: The New Mexico Business Journal ranks Summit No. 23 on its annual New Mexico Private 100 list of top privately owned companies. No. 1 was Allsup's convenience stores, and just ahead of Summit at No. 22 was Lee Galles Oldsmobile.
December 1, 1990: Dallas Service Center opens its new 18,875 square-foot location at 2626 Electronic Lane, about a mile away from the old location at 2627 Lombardy Lane.
July 20, 1991: Summit unveils its 20/20 Will Call Service Guarantee® at the Albuquerque Service Center with 34 test customers. The guarantee offers a $20 credit if will-call orders aren't ready within 20 minutes. Exclusions include cut wire, outside conduit and nonstock items. The guarantee was soon put into effect at every Service Center.
November 1991: The New Mexico Business Journal ranks Summit No. 39 on its annual New Mexico Private 100 list of top privately owned companies. It was a drop of 16 places from the previous year and placed Summit in the $15-$20 million category, despite Summit's earnings approaching $40 million.
 November 18, 1991: The former East Side Electric Supply in Phoenix, Ariz., becomes the sixth Summit Service Center. It had been a mere 10 days since an intent-to-purchase letter had been signed. The store was fitted out and inventoried with the help of 14 Albuquerque Associates who flew to Phoenix after work on Friday. The store opened the following Monday.
December 31, 1991: For the first time, Summit surpasses $40 million in net sales.
May 15, 1992: Summit hosts a golf tournament for key customers and vendors in Phoenix, Arizona.
June 1992: Summit is ranked No. 76 in Electrical Wholesaling magazine's annual list of the Top 250 electrical distributors in the nation.
 September 1, 1992: Service Center in Santa Fe, N.M., opens, becoming the seventh Summit Service Center. The 5,000 square-foot facility is meant to be a twig operation, a smaller facility with a sales counter and daily deliveries from Albuquerque. The location opened with three Associates: Richard Hernandez, Doug Chadwick and Tom Stehle.
November 1992: The New Mexico Business Journal ranks Summit No. 17 on its annual New Mexico Private 100 list of top privately owned companies. The awards banquet featured keynote speaker Jerry West, a member of the National Basketball Association Hall of Fame.
 June 1993: Construction wraps up at Summit's new Albuquerque headquarters at 2900 Stanford Dr. NE. The $2.5 million, 57,000 square-foot facility is meant to reflect Summit's vision of total quality. George Sanders of Sanders Rogers and Associates, was the principal architect and won several awards for his work on the Summit building.
June 1993: Summit is ranked No. 48 in Electrical Wholesaling magazine's annual list of the Top 250 electrical distributors in the nation, a jump of 28 spots from the previous year.
November 1993: The New Mexico Business Journal ranks Summit No. 16 on its annual New Mexico Private 100 list of top privately owned companies. At the time, Summit had just recently moved into its new Albuquerque headquarters and had 185 Associates and seven Service Centers.
December 31, 1993: For the first time, Summit surpassed $60 million in net sales.
January 1, 1994: Summit adds a 401(k) plan to its benefits package.
April 25, 1994: Summit purchases a Coast Electric location and opens a Service Center in Montclair, a western suburb of Los Angeles, Calif. At the time, it was the eighth Summit Service Center. The company's excursion into the California market would last several years, but ultimately the location was closed and remains the only Summit sojourn west of Phoenix.
 June 1994: The Service Centers in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and El Paso became certified as being compliant with ISO 9002 requirements. Certification through the international standards and quality system is a time-consuming, expensive process involving documenting and implementing company procedures regarding nearly every aspect of the business. Many businesses require their partners to be certified. At Summit, the requirements were seen as a positive way to enhance, advance and document existing quality standards.
June 1994: Summit becomes one of the first companies in the nation to store their ISO documentation and procedures online.
June 1994: Summit is ranked No. 36 in Electrical Wholesaling magazine's annual list of the Top 250 electrical distributors in the nation, a jump of 12 spots from the previous year.
December 31, 1994: For the first time, Summit surpassed $80 million in net sales.
 1995: Extensive renovation of the Farmington Service Center effectively doubled the size of the facility. The counter area of the El Paso Service Center was remodeled and tripled the display area.
1995: Summit is one of the first electrical distributors in the nation to earn an umbrella ISO certification which encompasses all Service Centers under one registration.
January 1995: A 16,000 square-foot Service Center in San Antonio, Texas, opens, becoming the ninth Summit Service Center. The first Service Center Leader was Hugh Atherton.
March 1995: Summit receives a Certificate of Excellence for its JIT Service Contract with Los Alamos National Laboratory.
 June 1995: Summit opens a second Fort Worth Service Center at 500 North Beach Street. Within a year, the new 16,250 square-foot Service Center would absorb the inventory and Associates of the North Richland Hills branch and become the only remaining Fort Worth Service Center. Richard Efurd managed both locations.
November 1995: Summit secures the premium domain name of www.summit.com and debuts its first Web site.
December 1995: Summit rolls out VOLTS, a modem based "Virtual On-Line Transaction System," and receives its first online orders. The system is updated and improved over the course of about a year, and it has since grown to become a key component of Summit's reach into the electronic marketplace.
December 31, 1995: For the first time, Summit surpassed $100 million in net sales.
 February 1, 1996: The IMARK Group is founded as a result of the merger between The Independent Electrical Distributors Group (TIED) and Western Independent Electrical Distributors. Summit was a member of TIED and continued with IMARK, one of the largest independent marketing cooperatives in the nation. Summit President Vic Jury Jr. served as IMARK's chairman of the board 2004-06.
February 5, 1996: Summit opens a Service Center in Rio Rancho, N.M., home to an Intel microchip processing plant. The 25,000 square-foot facility is shared evenly with a church. The first branch supervisor was Fred Stauffer.
March 1996: Summit receives a second Certificate of Excellence for its JIT contract with Los Alamos National Laboratory. In December, service levels for the Lab were at 99.3 percent.
May 10, 1996: The North Richland Hills Service Center in Fort Worth closes. All inventory and Associates are absorbed by the year-old Service Center at 500 N. Beach Street in Fort Worth.
 November 1996: Summit is ranked No. 6 in the annual New Mexico Private 100 listing of the state's top privately owned companies. Summit rose three places from its No. 9 ranking in 1995.
April 1997: The Phoenix Service Center concluded a minor baby boom. Six Associates celebrated the births of new children within a six-month span.
 May 23, 1997: Summit received a third Certificate of Excellence for its JIT contract with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Summit had worked on the Milagro Gamma Ray Observatory Project for more than two years.
June 1997: Summit is ranked No. 36 in Electrical Wholesaling magazine's annual list of the Top 250 electrical distributors in the nation, the exact same ranking as three years earlier, despite a difference of $40 million in sales.
February 1998: Electrical Wholesaling magazine features Summit's Web site, www.summit.com, in its "Wonders of the Electrical Web" column. Summit's Virtual On-Line Transaction System (VOLTS) is noted as one of the site's most intriguing aspects.
 May 1998: Service Center in Los Alamos, N.M., opens, at the time becoming the 10th Summit Service Center. Its proximity to Los Alamos National Laboratory provided an instant flow of customers. Summit veteran Wiley Shaw is named Service Center Leader, a title he also holds at the Albuquerque and Santa Fe service centers.
June 1998: Summit is ranked No. 42 in Electrical Wholesaling magazine's annual list of the Top 250 electrical distributors in the nation, down six spots from the previous year.
February 1999: Co-founder David Meredith announces his retirement. Victor Jury Jr. assumes title of president and chief executive officer.
Aug. 28, 1999: In anticipation of the looming Y2K transition, Summit converts its computer operating system to PM2000, which is able to digest dates in the 21st century.
 November 1999: The 100th Summit Associate completes the Gold Level of the National Association of Electrical Distributors' Electrical Products Education Course. According to the NAED at the time, there were only 497 Gold Level graduates worldwide. Victor Jury Jr. passed the Gold Level in 1991 and co-founder David Meredith passed in 1992.
2000: Summit closes Service Centers in Montclair, Calif., and Rio Rancho, N.M.
 2000: Dallas Service Center Leader Joe Chesky is promoted to vice president. He would later earn the title of Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
April 2000: Summit rolls out electronic invoicing and statements, offering customers added speed and efficiency with their former "paperwork."
 May 10, 2000: The Cerro Grande Fire destroys more than 250 homes in the Northern New Mexico city of Los Alamos, leaving hundreds of residents homeless. With the help of its Associates, Summit provided a $20,000 cash donation to the American Red Cross and used Summit trucks to help deliver relief supplies (including $5,000 worth of water, sport drinks and fruit) to Santa Fe and in some cases directly to the "front."
December 31, 2000: For the first time, Summit surpassed $120 million in net sales.
 May 1, 2001: Service Center in Austin, Texas, opens, becoming the 10th Summit Service Center in operation, 12th overall. Grand-opening festivities were held on August 10, and Blane Zeiler of Bowne Electric was the lucky winner of a brand new Ford Explorer.
August 2001: Summit acquires the assets of Tri-Electric Supply in San Antonio, Texas, which becomes the new home of the San Antonio Service Center at 2401 Brockton Drive.
September 2001: Summit ranks No. 40 on Electrical Wholesaling magazine's annual list of the top electrical distributors in the nation.
September 11, 2001: Terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania leave thousands dead and paralyze a stunned, mourning nation. Summit immediately organizes a donation drive involving Associates, Customers and Vendors, and a percentage of September's profits were earmarked for the drive. The result totaled nearly $100,000, and checks were cut for both the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army. Many Associates organized separate personal drives on their own to show their support and solidarity. Associates at the Fort Worth Service Center, for example, collected more than $3,000 in change and small bills for New York firefighters, police officers and rescue workers.
 November 2001: In an effort to "find unique ways to support America during this difficult time," Summit unveils signs, billboards and bus panels displaying patriotic messages in the Albuquerque area. One billboard featured the words "Wherever public spirit prevails, liberty is secure" against an American flag backdrop and a picture of the Statue of Liberty. The response was prolific and overwhelmingly positive.
January 23, 2002: Albuquerque Associate Rey Nieto suggests "SUMMIT UP" as the new name of the employee newsletter and wins a new six-speaker DVD system. Other suggested names in the contest included @Summit, Network News, Team Times, Currents and Summit Circuit. The newsletter had previously been named The Electrogram.
June 2002: Summit ranks No. 34 in Electrical Wholesaling's annual list of the biggest 250 electrical distributors in the nation. The magazine reported that sales among the Top 250 were down by 8.4 percent, but that the total number of the distributors' branches had increased to 4,846.
 July 2002: To celebrate the opening of the new 37,000 square foot Service Center in San Antonio, Summit holds a three-month "Leader of the Pack" promotion, culminating in the giving away of two Kawasaki ATVs. The lucky winners were Kyle Ross of Ross Electric and Roland Ornelaz of Lanehart Electric.
August 2002: Summit wins TED magazine Best of the Best marketing awards for its patriotic-themed Print Advertising and its Integrated Promotional Campaign supporting its new Austin Service Center.
 August 15, 2002: Summit celebrates its Silver Anniversary with in-store promotions lasting through September. Every Associate received a commemorative sterling silver keychain, and Associates with 10 years of service or more were invited to a special anniversary event in Albuquerque, N.M. One customer at each Service Center (such as Bill English Jr. of English Electric in Farmington, N.M.) won a pair of airline tickets by opening a prize vault on the sales counter.
October 12, 2002: In an unusual twist of events, a Summit sales representative literally came to the rescue of a valued customer and his two sons. Albuquerque Associate Adam Hernandez volunteers for a search and rescue team and was called on a mountain mission to find three missing hikers. As it turns out, the missing hiker was one of his customers. Everyone made it home safely.
 October 18, 2002: Summit purchases 56-year-old Ideal Electric Supply of Killeen, Texas. Ideal had six employees and had been in business since 1946. It serves the Killeen and Fort Hood market. It became the 11th Summit Service Center but remained under the Ideal Electric banner for more than a year.
 December 5, 2002: At an auction in Corpus Christi, Texas, Summit Electric Supply acquires the assets of a bankrupt competitor Warren Electric Group of Houston, Texas, for $10.5 million. The acquisition adds seven Service Centers in Texas (Houston, La Porte, Beaumont, Clute, Corpus Christi, Harlingen and Lufkin), four in Louisiana (New Orleans, Broussard, Sulphur and Gonzales), an export division based in Houston, and a sales branch in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. Warren had been in business since 1919. The Service Centers in Lufkin, Texas; Harlingen, Texas; Sulphur, La.; and Venezeula would soon close, but for a time, Summit operated 23 Service Centers plus the export division.
March 2003: A feature about Summit is the cover story in The Electrical Distributor (TED) magazine. The article, headlined "30 Seconds to Perfection," is a general overview of Summit and Vic Jury's management style and principles.
March 31, 2003: The inventory at the Sulphur Service Center is transfered to Beaumont and Houston, and the location closes.
April 30, 2003: Summit is recognized for its high standards with an Ethics in Business Award in the large-business category. The fourth annual awards dinner in Albuquerque was hosted by the Samaritan Counseling Center. Awards are presented to businesses that demonstrate "the highest ethical conduct and social responsibility."
May 2003: Retired Summit co-founder David Meredith returns to work as a consultant involved in the training of Service Center Leaders.
 May 18, 2003: The Houston Service Center moves from its old home at 16250 Port Northwest to its downtown location at 2929 McKinney Street. More than 90 Associates from five Service Centers assisted with the move.
June 2003: Summit is ranked No. 31 in Electrical Wholesaling magazine's annual list of The Top 200 Electrical Distributors. Summit climbed three spots from the previous year after posting a 3 percent sales increase. Overall, companies in the Top 200 posted a 3.6 percent decline in sales.
 August 9, 2003: The Dallas Service Center triples in size after moving from its 20,000 square-foot facility at 2626 Electronic Lane to a 60,000 square-foot site at 2646 Manana Drive.
December 2003: An open house is held at the Dallas Service Center to celebrate the opening of its new facility. More than 400 Summit customers and suppliers attended. Gene Williams of Universal Controls won a Honda Rancher 350 ATV. A week later, a similar event was held at the Lufkin Service Center. Gary Campbell of Campbell Electric won a Honda Recon 250 ATV.
December 31, 2003: For the first time, Summit surpassed $200 million in net sales.
 June 2004: Summit wins two Best of the Best honors in TED (The Electrical Distributor) magazine's annual marketing awards. Summit won for its "Introducing Summit" campaign aimed at the Gulf Coast market and for its "Leader of the Pack" promotional campaign of direct mailings, e-mails and prize giveaways. It was the third and fourth such award for the marketing team.
October 2004: Summit President and CEO Victor Jury Jr. assumes the role of chairman of the board for the IMARK Group. He succeeds Pat Hare, president of Parrish-Hare Electrical Supply in the Dallas-Forth area.
October 28, 2004: Summit wins a VIVA Award from the New Mexico Association of Commerce and Industry, the local arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. VIVA represents vision, investment, vitality and action.
November 2004: The second open house in Dallas attracts nearly 300 customers and suppliers. The Leader of the Pack event featured food and prizes, and Clayton Youngblood of TD Industries won a Honda Recon ATV.
November 10, 2004: In balloting at the annual New Mexico Private 100 luncheon, Summit is named the Most Admired Company in the state.
December 31, 2004: For the first time, Summit surpassed $220 million in net sales.
Jan. 12, 2005: Summit commences its first sales conference in San Antonio. Nearly 100 Associates attended and were treated to training, an awards banquet and the opportunity to meet folks from different Service Centers.
February 2005: Driver's Safety Awards are presented to 13 Summit delivery drivers who have logged two years or more without an accident: Manuel Aguilar, Houston; Jason Eisenmenger, Dallas; Brian Gilbert, Albuquerque; Robert Gomez, Dallas; Ernie Grillot, New Orleans; Mark Hines, Albuquerque; Joe Nuttall, Phoenix; Jim Perez, Dallas; Mark Ringeisen, Albuquerque; Todd Schell, Phoenix; Paul Smith, Houston; Jorge Tolentino, Houston; Wesley Templet, Gonzales.
April 2005: Summit hires Steve Vandewater as Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Information Technologies. Vandewater had been with CellStar Ltd. in Dallas, Texas, where he directed a global IT staff of 80.
 April 2005: Summit embarks on an ambitious SAP enterprise software computer implementation.
June 2005: Summit is ranked No. 27 in Electrical Wholesaling magazine's annual list of the top electrical distributors in the nation.
June 9, 2005: Open houses are held in Gonzales, La., and Corpus Christi, Texas, attracting about 450 Customers and Suppliers. It was the first open house for the Gonzales Service Center, and Jana Chataginer of Turner Electric won the Yamaha Bruin ATV. It was the second open house at the Corpus Christi Service Center, and Mark Yaws of Mercer Controls won the Arctic Cat ATV.
July 15, 2005: Service Center in Lufkin, Texas, closes, leaving a total of 19 Summit Service Centers, plus the export division.
August 9, 2005: The Albuquerque Service Center hosts an open house dubbed the Red or Green ATV Giveaway Event. More than 450 Associates, Customers and Vendors attended. Brand new ATVs were won by Duane Boysen of Gardner Zemke (the red one) and Eloy Zamora of U-Haul (the green one). For the uninitiated, "red or green?" is the state question of New Mexico, as approved by the Legislature. It refers to the common practice of restaurant servers asking which color of chile diners prefer.
 August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana, and the resulting storm surge devastates a wide area of the Gulf region. More than 1,300 people were killed. Summit's three Service Centers in Louisiana escaped major damage, but at least four Associates lost their homes. A charity campaign by Summit Associates and executives resulted in a $10,000 donation to the Red Cross Katrina relief fund.
September 30, 2005: Victor Jury Jr. is listed as a "Power Broker" in New Mexico Business Weekly's annual Power magazine. In answers to off-the-wall questions, Jury admits that his fantasy job would be head of design for Studerio Ferrari and that his favorite fictional character is Jean Valjean from Victor Hugo's book Les Miserable. "An imperfect man who dealt with adversity without self-pity and who was compassionate, responsible, humble and kind," Jury says in the magazine.
December 9, 2005: Los Alamos Service Center closes, leaving a total of 18 Service Centers, plus the Export Division.
December 31, 2005: For the first time, Summit surpassed $260 million in net sales.
January 1, 2006: Summit entered the new year with approximately 500 Associates, 100 of which work at the company's headquarters in Albuquerque, N.M. The company serves about 40,000 customers.
January 5, 2006: Sylvania is named Vendor of the Year at the inaugural Vendor Recognition and MVP Awards banquet in San Antonio, Texas. Pass & Seymour/Legrand also fared well, winning awards in three categories: best new product, administration and sales support.
 February 16, 2006: An open house at the La Porte Service Center officially debuts a months-long renovation of the site from a Houston satellite pick-up spot to a full-service branch. Service Center Leader Mike Mares led the renovation efforts. Danny Liescheski of Lyondell Chemical Co. won a Yamaha Bruin ATV.
 March 13, 2006: Jorge Guajardo is named Corpus Christi Service Center Leader. Former SCL Mark Lambert moves to Albuquerque headquarters to help with the transfer to a new computer operating system. Guajardo had been an Account Manager at the El Paso Service Center.
April 17, 2006: Drew Ott joined Summit as the first Vice President of Sales. His past professional experience includes 15 years of service with Hughes Supply, where he was a branch manager, district manager and regional vice president.
April 25, 2006: Summit wins two Best of the Best marketing awards at the annual meeting of the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED). Summit submitted entries in five of the 10 categories and won for Direct Promotion (the result of Summit's partnership with Sylvania with promote lighting to five separate markets, including schools and hospitals) and Merchandising (the result of the renovation at the La Porte Service Center). Marketing Associate Kevin Glasgow was major contributor to these projects.
June 8, 2006: Summit is ranked No. 23 in the annual Hot 200 list compiled by Electrical Wholesaling magazine. It's the highest ranking Summit has achieved, up four spots from the previous year.
August 7, 2006: The Corpus Christi Service Center holds an open house to debut its new counter area. The months-long remodeling effort resulted in a sales floor three times larger than the old one.
September 2, 2006: Albuquerque Service Center warehouse Associate Laura Brandiger returns from a six-month assignment with the Air National Guard. Brandiger took military leave from Summit to serve in the Iraq War. Photographs of her at the U.S. base in An Nasiriyah, Iraq, appeared in several national trade publications.
September 6, 2006: Vic Jury announces in a company-wide e-mail that Summit will open two new branches in Florida. Harvey Neeley is hired to run the Orlando Service Center, and John Truss is tabbed for Jacksonville. Both new Service Center Leaders came to Summit from Hughes Supply Co.
October 15, 2006: Vic Jury Jr.'s two-year term as the IMARK Group's chairman of the board comes to a close at the organization's annual meeting in La Quinta, Calif. Steve Helle of Granite City Electric Supply in Quincy, Mass., has been elected to succeed Jury.
March, 2007: Summit sales office opens in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
June 26, 2007: Up one spot from 2006, Summit is ranked No. 22 in the annual Hot 200 list compiled by Electrical Wholesaling magazine, with revenue of $337,000,000. |
