Rachel Slade, IDEA’s Director of Business Development, attended the recent NAED Women in Industry conference and shares her thoughts. The essence of her feedback mirrors those that Desiree Grace shared last week and their feedback, coupled with some calls I […]
At last month’s NAED National, ETIM North America hosted ETIM International leadership and shared information about the organization’s success with electrical distributors and manufacturers. Mary Shaw, Executive Director of ETIM North America and Vice President, ETIM International, graciously shared an […]
Last week NAED held the largest association conference of the season, its annual Women in Industry conference, which was held in Houston and reportedly attracted about 1100 people with about 50% being first time attendees. According to conversations I had […]
At last month’s NAED National, the association two major initiatives – ProjectNexus (aka Where’s My Stuff) and Careers with Power. I shared NAED’s press release and some questions that distributors and manufacturers shared with me a couple of weeks ago […]
Earlier this year, New England Solutions Group (NESG), a new New England rep firm and lighting agency, launched under the leadership of industry veterans with deep distribution and market expertise. Following the firm’s press release, I spoke with co-founder Mike […]
A couple of weeks ago NAED held its 2026 National meeting in Orlando. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend this year as I committed to speak at the Electric League of Western PA on the topic of Improving Project Profitability […]
Is the relationship between reps and distributors becoming more essential to our industry? I was interviewing an executive of a national electrical distributor recently, and he related to me his company now found partnering with a manufacturer’s representative more significant […]
Greaves recently joined NAED as a manufacturer member. Quite frankly when I saw the brief announcement I was taken back for two reasons. First, most of the announcements I see from NAED regarding new members are software providers or small, […]
Last month AHTD, the Association of High-Tech Distributors, or more commonly referred to as the automation market, held their Spring Meeting. Reports were that it was well-attended by both distributors and manufacturers. In addition to distributors and manufacturers pairing up […]
Last month LEDucation ran its largest show ever … over 8500 people attended the first day and reportedly registrations over 10,000! And there was a record 565 booths. Talking about packing sardines into a can! It then begs the question […]
