Border States Electric, Fargo, ND, has agreed to acquire Electrical Wholesale Supply of Utah. EWS is headquartered in Salt Lake City, with branch locations there and in the Utah cities of Orem, Layton, St. George, Logan, Springville, Heber City and Park City.
Reed Gardner and Arwyn Murphy will continue to lead the EWS branches, and EWS employees will join the Border States Employee Stock Ownership Plan and become employee-owners. The company name will change slightly to Electrical Wholesale Supply of Utah, a division of Border States.
The transaction is expected to close September 30. Border States Electric ranked No. 8 on MDM’s 2013 list of top electrical distributors