2020 Winding Down, ElectricalTrends’ Top 10

2020 is winding down and we’d like to thank you for your readership of ElectricalTrends. This year we had over 113,000 page views, which represented a 10% increase over 2019.

Lots of different topics were covered through over 90 new postings (there are now over 1200 generated over the past thirteen years in our database.)

Obviously, the major topic was COVID and its impact on the industry. We conducted four surveys to gain distributor, manufacturer, and rep insights. Shared thoughts on changes in the channel at the counter, online (with the acceleration of eCommerce as an omni-resource for customers), in the field with the changing role of reps as well as the impact on the traditional manufacturer regional management role.

Honestly, it’s a challenge to remember the first 75 days of 2020 but that was back when we had two NAED regional conferences (remember, there were face-to-face conferences in 2020!) and shared results of the 2020 NEMRA Rep of the Future report at the NEMRA 2020 Annual Meeting last February.

In looking back, these were our top 10 postings, based upon page views:

1. The Future of Distribution Equipment Manufacturers
2. Salespeople in Lockdown Could Cost You Share
3. Where is ABB Going?
4. Business in the Coronavirus Era
5. Coronavirus Sales BC vs PC
6. The Future of Counters
7. 2020 NAED Western Conference Observations
8. The Changing Distribution Landscape 2030, 2040, 2050
9. Two Distributors, Different Business Models – Rexel and Grainger
10. Accelerating Decline; Electrical Market Sentiment Survey #2

And, in looking back over the past two years, these were the top 15 stories:

1. Lighting it Up, Chicago-style
2. The Future of Distribution Equipment Manufacturers
3. Salespeople in Lockdown Could Cost You Share
4. Where is ABB Going?
5. 3M Changes, Striving for Control
6. Signify Acquires Cooper Lighting Solutions
7. Home Depot to Offer Customized Pro Pricing
8. The Electrical Acquisition Market is Heating Up
9. Distributor Acquisitions Dominate January
10. 2020 Planning
11. Business in the Coronavirus Era
12. 2020 Dodge Construction Outlook Down Key Segments
13. The Future of Counters
14. Here He Comes Again, the RSM
15. WESCO, Rexel and AD Q2 2019

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