Topaz Lighting and Electric is seeking a Western Region Sales Manager. Reporting to the National Sales Manager, this position manages all selling activities of Topaz’s Lighting and Electrical products through electrical distributors while increasing sales, building brand awareness, and growing profitability. […]
What do Crescent Electric and Walmart have in common? They both have recently made eCommerce acquisitions … and probably for the same reasons. And both, probably, have been frustrated with the pace of their eCommerce initiative. Consider this: Walmart just […]
For years we’ve recommended ElectricSmarts to distributors and manufacturers. For distributors they offer free, robust, content to enhance websites along with an eSales capability that enables contractors to selectively determine which distributors they want to electronically connect to … from […]
Rebates are a fact of life and the first marketing group rebate negotiation, in 1968, was designed to capture incremental revenue (for a wire company) with the distributors collecting the funds for a social engagement. But the core issue was […]
Earlier in the week we covered distributor quarterly earnings and now we’ll cover some manufacturers – Eaton, Emerson, Pentair (Hoffman & Erico) and Littelfuse. Eaton From their slide presentation: Overall organic sales, company-wide, down 4%, which isn’t as meaningful for […]
Last week the electrical industry’s major, publicly held, distributors shared their Q2 performance. Reading their quarterly reports highlights that there continue to be industrial challenges, they are responding differently to the MRO and construction markets. So let’s look at WESCO […]
Monday was “movement day” for lighting relationships. And the changing relationships may say something more about the manufacturers than their partners. WESCO Moves to Current by GE WESCO has been synonymous with Eaton and Phllips Lighting and was / is the […]
It was 9 years ago today that Allen Ray from Allen Ray Associates and David Gordon from Channel Marketing Group decided to collaborate and launch ElectricalTrends as a resource for the electrical distribution industry. The goal of ElectricalTrends has been […]
We’re in the summer earnings season so we’ll start to look at what some of the publicly held electrical manufacturers and distributors are saying, with a focus on their U.S. business. We’ll start with Rockwell and Hubbell. Rockwell From their slide […]
The LED revolution is now complete. The historical Big 3 lamp companies are essentially either out of the business (Philips and OSRAM Sylvania under new owners) or removed from the business (GE). OSRAM Sylvania’s announcement that LEDVANCE has now been […]
