The automation space is very specific, yet important. While the industrial segment (industrial MRO and OEM represents about 33% of total electrical distribution sales, according to DISC, automation products represent a significant percentage of this. Rexel’s acquisition last month got […]
While Atkore is a valued supplier to many distributors, and extremely important to many manufacturer reps, even with their “multi-rep / territory” strategy, many have wondered about the company’s longer-term future. Atkore “Cleaning Up”? Over the past few years, the […]
Last week Phoenix Lighting announced that they acquired Rig-A-Lite. The combination of Phoenix and Rig-A-Lite brings a stronger industrial lighting player to the market as Phoenix “scales up”. The sale of Rig-A-Lite was not surprising given that Rig-A-Lite had been […]
Last week Nexans spent $800 million to enter the US electrical distribution wire / cable business with their acquisition of Republic Wire. This week we start with the news that Hubbell made the largest acquisition in many years, sending $3 […]
Recently Forward Solutions, best known as Electris360 in the electrical industry and the firm that owns ElectroRep, RB Sales and Fields Electrical Sales, acquired Sales Lane, a California manufacturer rep firm. Forward Solutions’ ElectroRep Acquires, Integrates, Sales Lane According to […]
Ready for a new entrant in the wire business? Meet Nexans. Nexans, worldwide a leader in the wire and cable industry and a name mentioned in the US but a niche player, is entering the market via the acquisition of […]
Lighting … A Smaller Segment of LSI LSI Industries, the parent of LSI Lighting and Atlas Lighting, reported 3Q fiscal year 2026 earnings on April 23. As one of the few remaining publicly traded lighting manufacturers that reports, although not […]
Following its acquisition of the permanent lighting portion of Topaz from Southwire, Halco Lighting has been reviewing its rep network and making, in many cases, the hard decision of which independent manufacturer representative to go to market within each territory. […]
The price of copper and aluminum, over the years, continues to rise and most feel that it is sustainable given the central role that, especially copper, plays in the economy. Everything from electricity transmission to data center, from EVs and […]
Graybar yesterday announced that it is expanding its presence in Oklahoma with the acquisition of Broken Arrow Electric Supply. The company, which already had two locations in the state under the Graybar name, will be adding seven more under the […]
