Earlier this month NAED held its 2017 Annual Meeting in Boston. The meeting attracted a little over 600 attendees. According to one manufacturer there were 339 manufacturer attendees plus service providers, technology companies, marketing groups and other miscellaneous entities … […]
Graybar becomes first major distributor to endorse the NEMRA POS / POT Minimum Reporting Standards and explicitly express report for rep initiative. Last year NEMRA and its NMG (NEMRA Manufacturer Group) took a leadership role in promoting POS / POT […]
Attendees at the 2017 NAED South-Central shared a sense of optimism as many expressed improving sales in January and February. It was not unusual to speak with a distributor or manufacturer who was up 3-5% and there were some, non-lighting, manufacturers […]
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 […]
Last week’s NEMRA meeting pulled together the industry’s sales organization. Over 1900 manufacturers and manufacturer reps came together to review 2016, recognize successes and discuss how to accelerate growth in 2017. In the words of one attendee, “this is the […]
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 […]
Last week’s NAED 2017 Eastern Region Conference started the association meeting season with a whimper, albeit much of the “lack of energy” may not be attributable to NAED, especially given the need to book meeting space years in advance. The meeting […]
Ascend was the theme of last week’s AD North American Meeting which brought together over 1000 distributors and manufacturers from the U.S., Canada and Mexico. While the theme of “ascend” was defined by Bill Weisberg in various ways as “clarity […]
Earlier this week there was a press release announcing that a small, innovative and progressive LED lighting company, START Lighting, had recently joined NEMRA. Now normally a small manufacturer joining an association isn’t too noteworthy, and, quite frankly, it isn’t, […]
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