This week on Bill Attardi’s Energy Watch News blog there was a brief story on a lawsuit filed against TCP. The posting mentioned corporate misconduct and that the stock dropped 50+% on the previous Friday. A little digging revealed this […]
It was always said that the South Central regional should be in a warm weather location. Unfortunately, while warmer than Chicago, it was colder than what Floridians are used to. This must have been the coldest South-Central I’ve attended … […]
Last week I attended the NEMRA 2015 Conference in San Diego along with almost 1800 manufacturer reps and manufacturers. It is the largest single event in the electrical industry. A short five years ago it had about 1000 attendees, which […]
Last week was highlighted by the NAED Western in San Diego. While we weren’t there due to business conflicts, we have heard feedback from a number of distributors and manufacturers. The current issue of Electrical Marketing did share some highlights […]
IDEA made a leadership move this week and potentially gave the electrical industry a reason to be thankful this Thanksgiving week. The organization, essentially a joint venture between NEMA and NAED, announced an executive leadership team that combines the experience […]
Last week Stan and I attended the NAED Eastern in Marco Island. While NAED likes to go to nice places, and the Marriott has a very good lobby area for meetings, looking out the window at crystal blue skies and […]
Last week over 1000 attendees converged upon Chicago for Affiliated Distributor’s (AD) Electrical Supply Division North American Meeting. Channel Marketing Group attended along with 1042 other individuals. The theme of the conference was “Be Inspired.” Aside from national chain meetings, […]
Late last week came news that Bob Gaylord, former president of IDEA, was leaving the organization to pursue “other interests” (which, as an aside, is a nice euphemism!). Bob was a nice guy and contributed much time and energy to […]
The electrical industry has a number of entities that essentially act as “middlemen” between either manufacturers and distributors or distributors and their end customers. These companies provide value-added services to the channel. In the instance of companies such as All […]
Last week I was at the NAED South-Central which was held in Tampa. While the reported attendance was about 675-700 individuals, consisting of 75 distributor entities (including multiples of CED, Sonepar, etc), 122 manufacturer entities, and the remainder being reps […]
