FELE Company Profile

The Company’s water pumping systems move fresh and waste water for the housing, agriculture, and other industrial end markets. With a growing global footprint, the Company has also evolved into being a top supplier of submersible fueling systems at gas stations, making pumps, pipes, electronic controls, and monitoring devices. Fuel pumping systems account for the balance of the Company’s revenues.

The Companys products are sold worldwide by its employee sales force and independent manufacturing representatives. The Company offers normal and customary trade terms to its customers, no significant part of which is of an extended nature. Special inventory requirements are not necessary, and customer merchandise return rights do not extend beyond normal warranty provisions.

The Companys business consists of two reporting segments based on the principal end market served: the Water Systems segment and the Fueling Systems segment. The Company includes unallocated corporate expenses in an “Other” segment that, together with the Water Systems and Fueling Systems segments, represent the Company.

The market for the Companys products is highly competitive and includes diversified accounts by size and type. The Companys Water Systems and Fueling Systems products and related equipment are sold to specialty distributors and some original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”), as well as industrial and petroleum equipment distributors and major oil and utility companies.

Water Systems motors and pumps are used principally for pumping clean water and wastewater in a variety of residential, agricultural, and industrial applications. Water Systems also manufactures electronic drives and controls for the motors which control functionality and provide protection from various hazards, such as electric surges, over-heating, or dry wells or tanks.

Fueling Systems products are sold in highly competitive markets. Rising car use is leading to more investment in gas stations which, in turn, leads to increased demand for the Company’s Fueling Systems products. The Company believes there is growth opportunity in developing markets and, accordingly, acquired an investment in India in 2014. Fueling Systems competes in each of its targeted markets based on product design, quality of products and services, performance, availability, and price. The Companys principal competitors in the petroleum equipment industry are Danaher Corporation and Dover Corporation.