Mayer Electric Supply was recently presented with the prestigious Alabama Excellence Award. This highest level of recognition is presented to organizations that have demonstrated through their practices and achievements sustained performance excellence.
The Alabama Quality Award (modeled after the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award) has been administered by the Alabama Productivity Center since 1986. The Award recognizes and honors organizations whose innovations in areas of production, service, or management have resulted in increased productivity and quality.
Charlie Collat, Jr. Mayer’s Vice President for Quality and Training accepted the award on behalf of all Mayer associates and the work they’ve put into serving their customers well. "This award marks another milestone in Mayer’s vision to be First Choice of our customers, our associates and our suppliers," Collat said. "Mayer has had an ongoing focus on becoming a better and better company since the origins of our formal quality improvement process that began back in 1989... that’s 20 years worth of work. And we’ll never be finished with getting better."
The award was established to promote the awareness of performance excellence as an increasingly important element in competitiveness. Not only does it recognize excellent organizations, the Award also aims to increase the understanding of the requirements for performance excellence. To accomplish this, the Award promotes information sharing on successful performance strategies and the benefits derived from implementation of these strategies.
Mayer Electric Supply is a wholesale-distributor of electrical equipment and supplies, lighting, factory automation, tools and communications. The company serves contractors, industrials, utilities, commercial businesses and institutions with new construction and maintenance components, parts, equipment and supplies. Mayer is a third-generation, family-owned business founded in Birmingham, Alabama in 1930. The company is also a certified woman-owned business. Mayer serves customers in eight southeastern states with 50 locations and over 800 associates.