Graybar, distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products and provider of related supply chain management and logistics services, presented GE Lighting with the Graybar Supplier Excellence Award on Oct. 11. The award was presented at Graybar’s national training conference in San Antonio, Texas.
The Graybar Supplier Excellence Award is presented semi-annually to recognize a product supplier that has collaborated with Graybar in an exceptional manner to successfully grow profitable business together.
From left: GE Lighting GM,Professional Sales Dan Jenkins, GE Lighting President and CEO Maryrose Sylvester, Graybar President and CEO Kathy Mazzarella and Graybar Vice President, Marketing Bill Mansfield.
“We’re delighted to present GE Lighting with this award,” said Kathy Mazzarella, Graybar president and chief executive officer. “The relationship between our two companies spans more than a century, and GE Lighting continues to demonstrate a strong commitment to growing its business with Graybar.”
“The world of commercial and industrial lighting is experiencing unprecedented change,” noted Maryrose Sylvester, president and chief executive officer of GE Lighting. “Graybar and GE have worked together for more than 100 years and right now—through technology leadership, product quality and knowledgeable service—we’re leading a lighting transformation that’s producing significant benefits and strategic advantages for our mutual customers. We appreciate this recognition and look forward to our future together.”
Graybar is a Fortune 500 corporation and one of the largest employee-owned companies in North America. Through its network of nearly 240 North American distribution facilities, Graybar stocks and sells products from thousands of manufacturers.
GE Lighting employs 16,000 people in more than 100 countries, and sells products under the Reveal® and Energy Smart® consumer brands, and Evolve™, GTx™, Immersion™, Infusion™, Lumination™ and Tetra® commercial brands.
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