History of Zack
Zack Radio Supply was started in 1931 by V.N. (Zack) Zachariah,
a Lebanese Immigrant, during the heart of the depression.
Zack's business flourished selling products from his storefront
location on Market Street in San Francisco. Zack at that
time was selling MRO (Maintenance, Repair, & Operations)
products. In 1942 he sold many products to the military
and "Radio Products" gave way to "Electronics"
and the name of the company was changed. In 1946 Zack
began focusing on Sales to the Broadcast field and shortly
thereafter to Television Stations. A few years later,
sales were expanded to the OEM Industrial Market Customer.
Zack's customers were the who's who of The Electronics
Industry. Some of the notable customers included Mr.
Dave Hewlett, Dalmo Victor, Steve Jobs, & Steve
Wozniak.
Zack expanded & contracted over time and had locations
in Palo Alto, Sacramento, Monterey, San Jose, Phoenix,
Chicago, and Los Angeles.
Zack retired in 1987 and at that time the company was
purchased by an investor group led by Michael La Porte,
an executive of Belden Electronics. A few years later
in 1993, Zack Electronics & Data Communications
was sold to Dennis Awad, President of Tele-Com Products,
Inc., a successful entrepreneur, who had grown his own
business since 1977 from his parents garage.
 Dennis decided that with Zack's long history and success,
that he would merge his company into Zack and assume
the Zack Electronics well known identity. From 1993
until today, Zack Electronics, led by Dennis Awad, the
President of the company, conducted the following transactions:
October 1993 - Purchased Zack Electronics,
Inc. of San Jose, CA. Merged business with Tele-Com
Products, Inc. owned by Dennis Awad.
June 1996 - Purchased "Joseph Electronics"
of Niles, IL and turned it into a Zack branch.
June 1997 - Purchased "Electronic Parts
Company" of Phoenix, AZ. and turned it into a
Zack branch.
August 1997 - Purchased "Miltex"
a production supplies business in Chicago, IL
October 1997 - Sold Zack "Data/Communications"
business (3 locations) to Anicom of Chicago, IL. A
NASDAQ traded company.
March 1998 - Purchased "Mac Donald Hunter"
a production supply business located in Alhambra,
CA.
September 1999 - Sold Zack "Production
Supply" business to Contact East, a Stanley Works
Company now traded on the NASDAQ.
December 2000 - Sold Zack branch in Chicago
to the Managers (Formerly Joseph Electronics).
January 2001 - Zack Electronics reformed to
focus on the Audio, Video, Broadcast & Data Communications
Market.
For further information about Zack Electronics, contact
via e-mail Dennis Awad, President at dawad@zackelectronics.com
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