Sonepar, Charleston, S.C., announced their subsidiaries including Echo Electric, Springfield Electric, Richards Electric, Pepco and Holt will combine to form a single platform under the Echo brand.
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The newly formed brand will represent over $1.2 billion in sales, with 1,300 associates across 500,000 square miles across Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska and southern South Dakota.
By uniting the brands, customers have the added benefits of:
- Power panels in a fraction of the time manufacturers can supply.
- Dedicated inventory and services like certified pulling heads installation, custom printing and wire striping and prefabrication.
- Control panel building, sub-assemblies, enclosure modifications and controls engineering.
- Packaging and sourcing solution offers a turnkey approach for power substation projects, including project management, system design and development, and supplier network and consolidation.
Echo brand is Sonepar’s sixth U.S. operation with over $1 billion in annual sales; the move will be finalized in June 2025.
