SMC ELECTRIC SUPPLY PURCHASES WAREHOUSE

2333 Rusmar - Cape Girardeau, MO

SMC Electric Supply will relocate to a much larger facility in Cape Girardeau.  Tom Kelsey, commercial broker with Lorimont Place, Ltd. announced the electrical supply company based out of Springfield, Missouri has purchased a 26,650 square foot warehouse building located on 8 acres at 2333 Rusmar.  Kelsey said the former Paramount Liquor Distributorship facility built in 1983 has over 4,700 square foot of offices and showroom that SMC will remodel into a parts counter,  product showroom, training area and regional offices.

SMC purchased the former Schott Electric Supply Company in Cape Girardeau back several years ago and has been in operation at 1109 N. Kingshighway under the SMC name for the last year or so.  The warehouse and showroom on Rusmar will allow the company to expand their product inventory and also use the larger facility for a regional distribution center for their other branches in the region.

The company recently opened a new branch in Poplar Bluff.  They have ten electrical distribution operations in all, including Sedalia, Lebanon, Belton, Chillicothe, Monett, Joplin, Springfield, Poplar Bluff, and Cape Girardeau all in Missouri and Coffeyville in Kansas.  The business opened in 1950 in Springfield, Missouri by Everett Squires as Southern Supply, an electrical and plumbing supplier.  In 1975 the company was divided into two divisions and SMC Electrical Supply was formed.  SMC is still owned by the Squires family and is a stocking distributor of electrical, industrial hardware, automation controls and data communication products. 

Kelsey said he expects them to be in their new Rusmar location, which is directly off of South Kingshighway sometime in the late spring or early summer.  No sales price was disclosed, but the Lorimont website listed the property with the additional acreage at $1,028,000