History
1957
In 1957 Mr. Michel Ahad established an electrical supplies store in Sabaa Banat Street, Alexandria. His objective at the time was to distribute electrical supplies to contractors, industrial factories, and retail sale.
1963
By 1963 he established a reputation as one of the leaders in electrical supplies as his distribution reached to all of Egypt’s territories.
1972
The opening of the Egyptian market during President Sadat’s first term in 1972, was a ceased opportunity by Mr. Michel Ahad as he began to import fully equipped panel boards, motors, cables, and enameled copper wires.
1974
Due to the increase of development in Egypt’s infrastructure such as hotels, office buildings and residential areas, Mr. Michel Ahad began to venture into electrical wiring devices more than industrial supplies as he strongly believed that this was the future in Egypt. He then thought to bring the top Italian company in wiring devices, Bticino. He successfully negotiated a contract to be the sole distributor in Egypt. He proceeded by launching the Magic Series, for the first time in Egypt which received great success. Until now the Magic wiring devices and fuse switches holds a great share of the market.
1984
President Mubarak’s urge for local production lead Mr. Michel Ahad a proud patriot himself to build a factory in Egypt to locally produce Bticino wiring devices.
He was successful in convincing the Italian partners and negotiated a joint venture, under the name of EMB for electrical supplies and was appointed Chairman of the organization.
1992
Opening of our first office in Greater Cairo, to better serve the area and develop our projects sales team with engineers.
2001
The introduction of BT Home automation solutions with in house technical support and installation.
2010
Due to the merger and acquisition of Bticino brand to Legrand Group. Megalectric was chosen to expand its portfolio and develop Legrand brand in the Egyptian market.
2012
A complete portfolio of wiring devices, floor boxes, industrial plugs, power breakers, intercom, disconnect switches, and home automation was achieved and established to the market.
2015
Due to the success and strong partnership with Legrand Group, access to the complete structured cabling solution was presented to Megalectric and a new Datacom department was established in New Cairo to create the pathway for the same success and further develop Megalectric’s market share.
2016
Megalectric is proud to represent Estap’s complete data racks solution as its official partner in Egypt.
2017
Megalectric introduces Legrand Seico for Earthing and Lightning protection.
2018
Megalectric partners with KATKO to become its exclusive distributor in Egypt.
