Eagle Electric
Eagle Electric Manufacturing Company, founded in 1920, was a maker of electrical devices, switches and circuit units based in
History
The company was founded by Louis Ludwig and his younger brother Philip Ludwig both of whose children ran the company after the founders died.
The company's New York workers were represented by a union. Picketers were arrested outside the company's plant in January 1938.[1]
For many years, Eagle had a giant neon
By the early 1980s Eagle Electric was selling thousands of wiring device
The company began to move its production facilities away from New York to Greensboro, North Carolina in the early 1980s and later to Mexico. In 1997, the company announced that a new labor contract and tax abatements had convinced it to keep its operations in New York.[2] But a year later, the company's president and some other executives were removed by its board of directors.[3]
In the spring of 2000, Eagle was purchased by Cooper Industries to form Cooper Wiring Devices, Inc.[4] Cooper Wiring Devices is now based in Peachtree City, Georgia. Eaton Corporation bought Cooper Industries in 2012, and Eagle Electric is now known as Eaton Wiring Devices.
References
- ^ "Pickets Seized as Disorderly". The New York Times. January 5, 1938. p. 10. Retrieved 19 December 2009.
- ^ Polner, Robert (September 15, 1997). "CITY BRIEFING / A Report on People and Issues in City Government / Eagle Electric's Power Shift / Manufacturer to close N. Carolina plant, stay put in city". Newsday. p. A.21. Retrieved 19 December 2009.[permanent dead link]
- Crain's New York Business. Retrieved 19 December 2009.[dead link]
- ^ "Company News; Eagle Electric to Become Division of Cooper Industries". The New York Times. February 11, 2000. p. C4. Retrieved 19 December 2009.