Founded in 1956 by James McLoughlan, McLoughlan Supplies Limited has remained Newfoundland and Labrador’s sole exclusive wholesale full line electrical distributor.

From original premises on New Gower Street in St. John’s Newfoundland, McLoughlans expanded to Mill Lane, and then in 1972 to Blackmarsh Road with a modern 20,000 sq foot (1800 sq metre) warehouse, showroom and head office administration facility. Our Head Office is located on two and half acres within the centre of St. John’s. This specific location has been expanded to house an indoor pipe and conduit warehouse along with a second floor warehouse for Lighting World. Over the years another separate building was added for the industrial division, board and training rooms, offices and a further 10,000 sq foot warehouse for industrial products and additional stock.

Rapid expansion from 1984–1988 brought McLoughlan’s name and quality service to the paper mill towns of Grand Falls–Windsor and Corner Brook, the Halifax/Dartmouth branch in Nova Scotia was opened in November 1995.

St. John’s branch has a large Lighting World showroom. To many Newfoundlanders, Lighting World is McLoughlan’s public persona. There are also Lighting World showrooms in Grand Falls–Windsor and Corner Brook branches.

The founder and president of McLoughlan Supplies Ltd. passed away on March 16, 1991 and his daughter Ann, who practiced law at the time, retired from her legal career in order to concentrate on the leadership of the company.

The company is proud to say that it has matured over the past fifty years within the Atlantic Canadian market, adapting to the ever-changing market place becoming a major force within the Electrical Distribution business.

OVERVIEW OF OPERATION
The clientele of McLoughlan Supplies Limited range from large industrial/commercial contractors, offshore oil and gas, mining services, pulp and paper, oil refinery, and residential customers. However, the company’s main thrust continues to be servicing small to large contractors throughout the industrial and wholesale business, ensuring service is maintained at a high level.

"Service" is the operative word and McLoughlans is constantly adapting to our customers ever-changing requirements. The company ensures that it maintains knowledgeable and professional employees along with well-stocked warehouses in each of its four locations. Every location has its unique customer base with inventories to match their customer requirements. To find out more about each location click here.

St. John’s branch including Lighting World are ISO 9001:2000 registered.
The P.R.I.D.E. in our service stands for the following:

P – PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDE
R – RELIABLE PRODUCT
I – INVENTORY TO SUIT CUSTOMER NEEDS
D – DEPENDABLE SERVICE
E – EXPERIENCED STAFF

The largest operation is the St. John’s branch. Due to the immense and diverse customer base, the company decided in the late 1980’s to create divisions and assign customers as per their requirements. Hence the Wholesale, Industrial and Project divisions evolved and today they are solid business modules within the St. John’s branch. For a more detail look at each Division within St. John’s branch please click here.

McLoughlans has Lighting World showrooms in St. John’s, Grand Falls-Windsor and Corner Brook, Newfoundland. For more information about Lighting World and their products and services please click here.

INDEPENDENT ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS
A group of Canadian electrical distributors formed a buying group in 1965 as a way for independent distributors to pool their buying power to purchase at prices competive with those paid by larger competitors. This Canadian group of electrical distributors is now called the Independent Electrical Distributors (IED) a limited partnership which has 153 member branches in 10 provinces and 2 territories. McLoughlan Supplies Limited is a founding member of the original group and is now a Limited partner within IED. The focus of this group is much more then national pricing within IED vendors but, instead concentrates on marketing tools to expand members market. To find out more about IED click here.

COMPUTERIZATION AND E-COMMERCE
The company is automated providing both internet and e-mail access to all our sales staff as well access to all McLoughlan’s warehouses. We can provide e-commerce to our customers via our McL Online software and EDI to both customers and suppliers. If you would like more information on either of these services, please contact Jackie Kirkpatrick at (709) 576-4091 or 1-877-976-4091.