07/12/2016
Ham Radio Outlet (HRO[1]) has announced plans to hire an unspecified number of
Amateur Electronic Supply (AES[2]) employees, when AES shuts down its four
locations in late July. In addition, the current AES Headquarters store in
Milwaukee will become HRO's newest location later this summer, following
renovation. On July 1, AES announced that it was going out of business and
ending retail operations at its Milwaukee, Las Vegas, Cleveland, and Orlando
locations. With the approval of AES management, HRO senior managers visited
each AES location to interview staffers in hopes of "acquiring some of the
Amateur Radio retail employee talent in each of the current AES locations," an
HRO news release said.
"Together with this interview process, HRO examined what it would take to
perhaps acquire one or more of the AES store locations. At the time of these
interviews, many opportunities were explored with current AES senior
management," the release continued. "We are very excited to announce that HRO
was successful in providing offers of employment to a number of
soon-to-be-former AES employees, and that to some, we have offered positions
that involve HRO-sponsored and funded relocation.
HRO announced that once AES shutters its Milwaukee location at 5710 W Good Hope
Road on July 28, Ham Radio Outlet will undertake an extensive remodeling
project to create a new HRO Milwaukee store at the same site, which will open
at the end of August.
"It is with great pleasure that we are able to continue Terry Sterman and Phil
Majerus' legacy of providing a fantastic Amateur Radio store in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin," HRO President Robert Ferrero, W6KR. "It is our immediate goal to
have the largest, most well-stocked Amateur Radio retail store in North America
and perhaps even the world." HRO National Sales Manager Steve Gilmore, W4SHG,
said the Milwaukee location will be "a showplace that all must come see!"
After AES closes on July 28, all former AES locations' direct and toll-free
telephone numbers will be redirected to the closest HRO location, and the AES
website will be directed to HRO's website.
A family-owned business, HRO is the world's largest Amateur Radio dealership,
with locations from New England to the West Coast. It opened a new outlet in
Plano, Texas, in February 2015 and is relocating and expanding its Portland,
Oregon, store, which will open on July 25 at 14405 SW Pacific Highway.
[1] http://www.hamradio.com/
[2] http://www.aesham.com/
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