EFC Widens its Influence on Canadian Electrical Market with Guillevin Membership

Guillevin

 

Dec 6, 2019

By John Kerr

The history and scope of Guillevin in Canada is immense. One of our oldest wholesale brands its breath of market coverage across Canada makes it one of the largest electrical distributors serving the electrical industry. The announcement today that Guillevin is rejoining EFC is significant in many ways.

The founders of Guillevin understood early that involvement in the industry and autonomy for their branches in serving the market were key to a successful model that has spanned almost 120 years. Active in the early days of the Canadian Electrical Distributors Association ( CEDA ) Guillevin was front and center and involved in the industry.

Under their Charismatic leader Jeanine Guillevin Wood, who took over the helm after the passing of her husband François-Xavier the company grew in size influence and in the scope of its product offerings. Active in one of the original marketing groups COPEL Guillevin has always been a foundation part of the industry.

Today now back with EFC Canada allows Guillevin to grab hold of its roots and perhaps this recollection from Jeanine Guillevin Wood will set the path forward…

“ Another important benefit that I gained from CEDA was to meet and get together at the conferences with different people from so many provinces. For many of us, it was and still is the only opportunity to see our counterparts in other regions. This annual opportunity is very special to the ladies who attend the conferences with their husbands. The conferences also provide the opportunity to visit many parts of Canada that our normal travels would not take us to. I have fond memories of my visits to Newfoundland, British Columbia and many places in between, all visited at the time of a CEDA conference.

And finally, a compliment to Leo Bokofsky. In my opinion, he, during his term as President opened more new doors, set more new directions, looked at wider horizons for us all, with the result that the strong association that we have today owes much to the leadership that he provided for us then.”

Congratulations must go to Carol McGlogan, the team at EFC and their members who all rallied to make this happen.

Simply put this is great News..

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