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Manufacturer Code: MERITEC

Meritec is the electronic connector and cable assembly division of parent company, Ohio Associated Enterprises, LLC (“Associated Enterprises”). Founded in 1967, The Company has firmly established itself in the global Electronic Interconnection Industry. The founder and owners actively participate in the day‐to‐day management of The Company and ensure that The Company adheres to its Mission Statement: Meritec can trace its 1967 beginning to a company called A P Products Incorporated founded by Meritec’s current Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, John T. “Jack” Venaleck. Like many entrepreneurs, Jack started the Company in his home when he realized he had a solution to a growing and significant problem in The Electronics’ Industry. Using his formal physics and engineering education, his inherent design skills, a drafting board, and a small milling machine he designed, Mr. Venaleck produced and sold the Company’s first products, a line of IC Test Clips. These were small, insert‐molded devices used by technicians for testing various size‐integrated circuits’ packages, that were then new to the burgeoning Electronics’ Industry. The IC Test Clip Line solved a significant problem, became immediately successful and is a standard in The Industry today. That first product was followed by a line of “solderless electronic breadboards” also used by technicians and engineers to prototype new circuits. It, too, became very successful, and numerous other product lines and thousands of part numbers followed. The Company’s internal ability to design, tool, build and sell products that solve significant problems for Customers quickly led to growth into electronic connectors and cable assemblies in the 1970s.

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