According to a Reuters report, GE and ABB have reportedly “resumed negotiations” to sell GE Industrial to ABB. The article further references that Schneider Electric has decided to drop out of the race. So, it begs some thoughts: If there is […]
Cree’s FY 2017 4th quarter results while disappointing, especially on the lighting side of the business, do, to some degree, correlate with feedback from other major lighting manufacturers that, at least for major companies, the market is “challenged”. It appears […]
NSi Industries, LLC recently named Amanda Edden as Electrical Product Manager. Edden comes to NSi Industries, LLC with 5-years of experience working for companies like Lowe’s and Greenworks. She has held positions ranging from International Merchandising Coordinator to Sr. Sales Analyst […]
Home Depot shared its Q2 results yesterday and, while the company continues to perform well as indicated with over $28B in sales, its Pro business, defined as contractors and its Interline business, outperformed the core business. NAED’s TED Magazine, through […]
Anixter Power Solutions is currently hiring a Lighting Product Manager to be located in its Glenview, IL office. The Lighting Product Manager is Anixter’s subject matter expert for their lighting products and suppliers. The person has responsibility for understanding, communicating, […]
We need to grow the ElectricSmarts team again! ElectricSmarts will soon be entering its 18th year and will be again expanding and rolling out a great number of Advantage Products in our Suite at the NAED Eastern Meeting in November. […]
Distributors traditionally fought for market share via relationship, service and price. The company with the best people, best service and competitive pricing that could provide their customers with access to credit typically won more business in a market. Since a […]
On Monday we shared manufacturer Q2 performance and rest of year outlook from Littelfuse, Encore Wire, Schneider Electric and Pentair. Today we’re going to review the quarterly reports from GE, Eaton, Emerson, ABB and Hubbell (with the focus solely on […]
Last week we reviewed the Q2 performance updates of publicly held electrical distributors as well as other national organizations that share their performance. This week we’ll review some of the Q2 manufacturer performance reports (and the list of companies is […]
Over the past couple of weeks a number of manufacturers and some distributors have shared second quarter performance updates. We’ve taken a look at many and will share pertinent, US-related information. First we’ll do distributors as AD, Graybar, Rexel, WESCO […]
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