electrical contracting founded 1925 founder samuel sachs headquarters fenton missouri key people clayton scharff revenue 293 million website sachs electric sachs electric company is the largest electrical contractor in missouri . 1 in addition sachs has four specialized divisions sachs automation for pneumatic and computer based process control systems ; sachs systems for communications and security systems ; mcgraw electric in livonia michigan for automotive industry and other industrial electrical contracting ; and sachs civil for in house support for trenching excavating and general trades . 2 3 the company is based in fenton missouri a suburb of st. louis . it was founded as s & s electric company a two man and one room company in 1925 by samuel sachs in partnership with fellow washington university graduate herman spoehrer . it was renamed s. c. sachs company in the early 1930s . early projects included designing and building the lighting for sportsman s park home of the st. louis browns baseball team . 4 samuel sachs served as chief executive until 1953 when his son louis sachs was promoted to president . louis sachs was followed as president by norman krause in 1978 and larry plunkett in 1983 though the company remained family owned through 1990 . 5 in 1990 plunkett as president and ceo oversaw his most ambitious project the employee buyout of the company from the sachs family with a five year loan that the company paid off in three and a half years . 5 in 2000 the ceo position went to robert murdick and the presidency to clayton scharff 1 and scharff replaced murdick as ceo in 2002 . 5 sachs acquired detroit based mcgraw electric in 2003 to expand into the michigan industrial and automotive sector . 6 company revenue grew from 17 million in 1969 when plunkett joined the company as an engineer to 100 million in 1995 1 220 million in 2001 5 and 293 million in 2007 . 7 references edit a b c sachs names murdick as chief exec by linda tucci st. louis business journal june 2 2000 . retrieved mar 25 2010 . sachs electric official site . retrieved mar 25 2010 . sachs electric company company profile from hoover s. retrieved mar 25 2010 . our history sachs electric company official site . retrieved mar 25 2010 . a b c d scharff replacing murdick year early at sachs electric by margaret jackson september 6 2002 st. louis business journal . retrieved mar 25 2010 . sachs electric drives up auto work with acquisition by margaret jackson march 28 2003 st. louis business journal . retrieved mar 25 2010 . st. louis top 150 privately held companies no. 54 sachs electric co. st. louis business journal march 28 2008 . retrieved mar 25 2010 . external links edit sachs electric official website . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sachs electric & oldid 652733561 categories companies based in st. louis county missouricompanies established in 1925engineering companies of the united statesemployee owned companies of the united states1925 establishments in missouri navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 20 march 2015 at 13 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view