As a consultant it helps to have a partner who helps you gain visibility. Over the years I’ve been blessed to develop a relationship with Jim Lucy and Electrical Wholesaling magazine as have written a number of articles for EW. […]
NEMRA’s POS reporting initiative received significant distribution support last month when IMARK Group’s board of directors endorsed support for the standards, hence taking a leadership position in the importance of manufacturer reps. The Board motion encourages IMARK members to review […]
As 2017 comes to an end, I wanted to take a moment and thank you, our readers. Our goal throughout the year, and since August 2007 when ElectricalTrends was conceived, is to share ideas, observations and information to help you […]
At last month’s AD meeting (our observations here) Bill Weisberg announced the launch of the AD Disaster Relief Foundation. While the timing was serendipitous given the recent tragedies in Houston, Florida, the Virgin Islands, the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, Mexico and […]
At this week’s Rockwell Automation TechLED Rockwell announced a new partnership with Manpower to train (“upskill”) 1,000 veterans per year. The new initiative, reported by Control magazine, is designed to help address the expected shortage in skilled automation staff that […]
You’ve heard the phrase “what goes on in Vegas stays in Vegas”. Well, what goes on at an NAED South-Central doesn’t stay in Tampa when it can benefit children, especially children with cancer, and the St. Baldrick’s Foundation .. and […]
Last week we shared insights from the NEMRA Annual Meeting and mentioned NEMRA’s new initiative / platform called Power Pact which is conceived, based upon research, to take manufacturer / rep relations to partnerships with a goal of developing a […]
For some reason when it comes to December manufacturers seem to make a flurry of moves with a number being of the acquisitive type. Don’t know why, but… And there are other manufacturer “happenings” that we’ve heard of. So, as […]
For the past 18 months NEMRA has been working with its NMG (NEMRA Manufacturer Group) to better understand the impact of the lack of industry standards to report point of sale (POS) and point of transfer (POT) between distributors and […]
