Electro-Mech Scoreboards
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| Privately Held Company | |
| Industry | Scoreboard |
| Founded | 1963 |
| Headquarters | Wrightsville, Georgia, United States |
| Products | Baseball Scoreboards Basketball Scoreboards Football Scoreboards Soccer Scoreboards Hockey Scoreboards |
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Number of employees
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About 70 |
| Website | www.electro-mech.com |
Electro-Mech is an American manufacturer of electronic scoreboards and scoreboard accessories. The company serves all sports markets in the United States, but focuses primarily on smaller venues such as high schools, recreation parks, and college facilities and is most active in the southeastern United States.
Electro-Mech is an offshoot of a company based in Macon, Georgia called Peach State Amusements. The original company was known for building and servicing pinball machines. Peach State had a colorful history which included servicing various games that had been modified to facilitate gambling—an illegal practice in the state of Georgia. Peach State pursued the production of scoreboards in the early 1960s, but the company closed before having significant impact on the scoreboard industry.
Electro-Mech was founded by a handful of former Peach State employees with capital supplied by Mr. Francis Shurling. Shurling was a native of Wrightsville, Georgia, and arranged for the new scoreboard manufacturing facility to be built there. The doors opened in 1963. In the early years of Electro-Mech Charles McMichael and Hilton Holton became stockholders. Mr. Holton retired in 2001 and sold his stock back to the company a few years later, while the Shurling and McMichael families continue ownership of Electro-Mech.
Electro-Mech was created with a single purpose in mind: to manufacture scoreboards. Over the years the company has dabbled in a variety of other activities ranging from building wiring sub-assemblies used in cherry picker lifts to Christmas tree farming. The core business of scoreboards has remained the company's primary focus and primary source of revenue.
By volume, Electro-Mech manufactures more baseball scoreboards than any other sports category. Basketball is the second most popular sport by volume and football the third. Soccer, hockey, and a handful of specialty scoreboards round out the main product line.
Electro-Mech manufactures a variety of accessories for use with their scoreboards. Control consoles, wireless RF modems sets, and customizable ID panels are all common accessories manufactured by Electro-Mech. Other accessories, such as horns and data cable, are outsourced.
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