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Established in 1916, IDEAL Industries is a manufacturer of more than 6,000 products for residential, commercial and industrial electrical applications. The company s products include fish tapes , wire connectors, benders, lubes, electrical testers, hand tools, lugs, crimp terminals, and wire processing and stripping equipment. It serves wire processing and data communication needs. IDEAL Industries provides the Wire-Nut wire connectors, Yellow 77 wire pulling lubricants and T-Stripper wire strippers. The company has manufacturing plants in Illinois, New Jersey and Ontario. It also maintains sales facilities in England, Germany, Australia, China and Brazil and operates more than five distribution centers in the United States.

Talk-A-Phone Company is a communications manufacturer based in Chicago. The company has been providing communication solutions across the globe for more than 65 years. Talk-A-Phone started in the 1930s as manufacture of low- and high- priced record players. The company worked for the military and industry producing intercoms in the 1940s. Intercom and emergency phone systems for the military and industry was Talk-A-Phones core business through the 1970s. Since then the company has provided communication equipment for banks, fast food restaurants, automated gas stations and convenience stores. Now Talk-A-Phone constructs low powered radio frequency and cellular communication units.

Founded in 1946, Switchcraft is a manufacturing company that provides a range of connectors, jacks, plugs, molded cable assemblies and switches throughout the United States. It offers molding, stamping, plating, machining and assembly services. The company also meets the demands of Semko, Demko and Nemko agencies. Switchcraft provides products under the Q-G, StudioPatch and Dual-Jax series. In addition, it serves clients in the medical, process control, transportation, homeland security and broadcast industries. The company operates a subsidiary, Conxall. Switchcraft also has a more than 180,000-square-foot facility in Chicago. It has achieved ISO 9001 certification. Additionally, the company has a network of distributors in Canada, China, Germany, India and Turkey.