The NAED 2020 South Central, held a couple of weeks ago, introduced the industry to a new stop on our “tour”, Austin, Texas. While a new city, like all conferences, unfortunately didn’t get to see the city. Hotel was “okay” […]
Industry standards veteran Mary Shaw was introduced as the new Executive Director of ETIM North America. According to the press release, North American electrical industry veteran Mary Shaw has been announced as the executive director of ETIM North America, a […]
The web, and more importantly digitalization, is changing the way business is being done. Aside from eCommerce, digital initiatives are becoming embedded into business processes and communication methods. And it is going to go “deeper” with endeavors broadening into machine […]
Last week’s NEMRA conference, where independent manufacturer representatives celebrated their 50th anniversary, brought together over 2000 manufacturer representatives and manufacturers to conduct the industry’s largest set of meetings. The theme of this year’s conference was “Powering a Smarter World, 50 […]
Last week’s NAED Western, held in Phoenix and attended by approximately 700 people, was a productive event according to many who attended the industry’s first conference of the year. For many, one of the takeaways was the amount of walking […]
Last week the industry lost someone universally considered “a good man.” Clarence Martin, CFO and CEO of State Electric passed away. He would have been 81 next month. I had the privilege of knowing Clarence for the past 18 years, […]
Throughout the fall Channel Marketing Group surveyed NEMRA reps and also interviewed dozens of them on behalf of NEMRA for the upcoming Rep of the Future report, which will be unveiled at the upcoming NEMRA meeting. While the objective of […]
Paul Molitor, the president of IDEA since 2014, announced he is stepping down from his role later this month. According to IDEA’s press release the departure is for personal reasons. “The IDEA Board and the entire organization thank you for […]
The NAED meeting season began in full force last week with the NAED Eastern Regional Conference. While a few national chains, AD and IMARK previously held their meetings, the NAED Eastern was the first broad-based meeting for many manufacturers. Overall […]
IDEA’s eBiz conference was held last week in Philadelphia and had a record attendance of almost 200 data management and IT people from distributors, manufacturers and service providers attended seminars, heard the future direction of IDEA and the launch of […]
