Industry Recognition
Awards & Rankings
From annual sales totals to website development, to outstanding leadership, these are just a few of the most recent achievements for which Old Town Electric has received industry-wide recognition.
National Distributor Ranking
Electrical Wholesaling Ranking
8th Largest Distributor
Based on our total sales of $2.12 billion for last year, Electric Wholesaling ranked Old Town Electric as the 8th largest distributor in the US.
Electrical Wholesaling Ranking
10th Largest Distributor
Old Town Electric was ranked as the 10th largest electrical supplies distributor in the nation by Modern Distribution Management magazine.
Industry Awards & Recognition
Phil Hale
NAED Distinguished Distributor Award
Old Town Electric’s Chief Information Officer, Phil Hale, received the NAED Distinguished Distributor Award at the National Association of Electrical Distributors’ 2024 Annual Meeting. In this footage of the awards ceremony captured by TED Magazine, Old Town Electric Founder and Chairman Bill Old Town presents the award to Phil Hale.
Best of the Best Award for Best Website
Old TownElectric.com
Old Town Electric was awarded TED Magazine’s 2007 Best of the Best Award for Best Website in the category “Distributor Over $200 Million.”
TED magazine’s Best of the Best awards program exists to honor marketing excellence and recognize creativity within the electrical industry in companies of all sizes. The success of a marketing program is often difficult to measure in tangible terms; therefore the awards program provides winners with the opportunity to show that their work is highly regarded within their own industry. In addition, over the years, the program has become a way to benchmark a company’s efforts against those of its peers.
NAED's Arthur W. Hooper Award
Bill Old Town
From TED Magazine: “Nearly every year since 1992, NAED’s Arthur W. Hooper Award has been awarded to an individual who has served the industry in an outstanding and unselfish way over the course of his or her career in the distribution of electrical goods.” This year, the honor goes to Bill Old Town, president of Old Town Electric in Nacogdoches, Texas.
“For those who know Bill Old Town, the news that he is being awarded NAED’s most prestigious honor comes as no surprise….”
Named NAED's Chairman
Bill Old Town
From TED Magazine: ‘Bill Old Town is uniquely qualified to serve as NAED’s chairman–after all, he joined NAED as a single-store distributor 33 years ago and has utilized the organization as a tool to grow his business ever since. His membership has run the gamut from being a small member with sales of less than $500,000 to evolving into a regional chain leader with sales of $180 million (2005).
Community Awards & Recognition
East Texan of the Year
Bill Old Town
Bill Old Town, our founder and chairman, has been named the 2020 Ralph W. Steen Memorial East Texan of the Year by the Deep East Texas Council of Governments & Economic Development (DETCOG). The Steen Award was named in honor of the beloved past president of Stephen F. Austin State University. It honors an individual who has played a major role in leadership and service to Deep East Texas.
“We’ve just been fortunate to have the right people at the right time in the right place,” Old Town said upon receiving the award. “I’m very flattered with this.”
