NSI Industries announced that it is the first company to be NEC 230.46 Compliant, with a number of Polaris® UL listed connectors adhering to this new requirement. “Effective Jan. 1, 2023, NEC 230.46 requires wire connectors used for splicing or […]
Doesn’t time fly. This weekend we turned the clocks forward which means spring is right around the corner and Q1 is almost done! With the quarter almost up, and seemingly much of the conference season, it’s time for our first Pulse […]
Last week Graybar announced that their 2022 revenues exceeded $10 billion for the first time. And after the market growth of 20% annually for the past few years powered by COVID-driven supply chain issues, price increases and market dynamics and […]
Last week’s NAED South Central brought an end to the trilogy of NAED regional conferences this year (here’s feedback from the NAED Eastern and the NAED Western.) While there was much information gathered from one-on-one meetings with manufacturers, distributors and […]
Bill Hammond is getting a promotion in the near future! According to an article in the Canadian Electrical Wholesaler: “Recently, Hammond Power Solutions Inc. announced the transition plan for Chairman and CEO, Bill Hammond, to move into the Executive Chairman […]
It’s been a number of years since Forrester Research and Gartner foreshadowed the demise of electrical distributors and forecasted that the business would 1) go online and 2) be taken over by Amazon and national chains. The part they missed […]
Each element of the channel is talking about information sharing and digitizing of processes. Distributors seek “better” and “more” product content to power their websites, manufacturers and distributors talk about the need for “data” to enable them to do “analytics”, […]
According to a press release from Current Lighting, “Current™, a leading commercial and industrial (“C&I”) lighting and controls company, has appointed William (“Bill”) Tolley as its Interim CEO, effective today. Departing CEO Manish Bhandari was instrumental in leading the company […]
Conexiom is helping electrical distributors, and now electrical manufacturers, scale their businesses by automating the ordering process, enabling repetitive tasks (data entry) to become digitized enabling staff to manage more and/or better serve internal and external customers. It’s website highlights […]
AD launched an interesting, and perhaps valuable, initiative that, on the face of it, would appear to target a core element of an association’s value proposition … training. And, it is interesting given that, presumably, a significant percentage of leading […]
