Congratulations to Dave Cooke and the Utility Service Agency team for putting together a fantastic year for Estex products. With the addition of Virginia to their territory and the development of all their accounts the USA sales team has put together a record year for the sale of Estex products and setting a new benchmark for sales by any one agency.

Dave and his sales team; Don Bowden, Brett Bruton, Jim Cooke and Keith Stowe have strong relationships with their distributors and direct utility accounts. They do a great job in managing existing contracts as well as creating new business through the addition of items to their accounts.

The USA support staff is also one of the best. Mary Cooke, Bill Nelson, Newsome Moore, Conrad Stuntz and Christy Woolley keep an eye on all contracts and quotes and deliveries to make sure that their customers get the best service.

I know that Dave and his team like being #1 as they have achieved this status with many of their other lines. Now that they have the top spot at Estex it will be hard to wrestle it away from them.

There were a number of other strong sales performances in 2005. Andy McMahon and the Shamrock Power Sales agency, last year’s winner was a close second followed by Al Stearns and Utility Sales Associates-Illinois, Chuck Folse and ACF Associates in Louisiana and Bobby Cox and Elgin B. Robertson agency in Texas.

We want to thank the Utility Service Agency team for their efforts as well as all our other agencies for another great and successful year.