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The Second Derivative of Acquisitions / Mergers
David Gordon Posted On July 9, 2024

Second Derivatives of Acquisitions

The second half of the year has started and the first week brought acquisitions / mergers and news that will, and could, influence many other factors. In most industry acquisitions, the acquisition of one company by another typically has most […]


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The 2024 NAED Women in Industry Forum … 1100 Strong
David Gordon Posted On June 10, 2024

NAED Women in Industry 2024

Last week NAED held its Women in Industry Forum. It was the largest NAED event in years. Our friend and ElectricalTrends contributor, Desiree Grace, attended the event and graciously shared her observations: “It was an electrifying 3 days for the […]


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NAED 2024 National Meeting Observations … Improving Market, Aspirational Goals
David Gordon Posted On May 31, 2024

NAED 2024 National Meeting

Last week’s NAED National Meeting was the first under its new president, Wes Smith. While it wasn’t a “party”, it did celebrate a number of people at the Chairman’s Awards dinner, recognized many manufacturer and service provider sponsors, hosted about […]


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Electric Expo 2024, sponsored by PECO, Returns this Fall – Special Booth Offer
David Gordon Posted On May 1, 2024

Electrical Association of Philadelphia Electric Expo 24 Peco

In 2022 I attended the Electrical Association of Philadelphia’s 2022 Expo. It was, in a word, “packed”. About 2200 attendees from the greater Philly area. And with NECA on the West Coast this year, this will be the best opportunity […]


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LEDucation: Lights + People + Conversation = Success
David Gordon Posted On March 25, 2024

Day 1 LEDucation

According to the NY Post, 8.26 million people live in New York City and 1.6 million live in Manhattan, the site of last week’s LEDucation. It seemed like all of the Manhattanites descended on the NY Hilton Midtown last Tuesday! […]


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Observations from 2024 NAED South Central and New President Address
David Gordon Posted On February 27, 2024

NAED 2024 South Central

Last week’s NAED South Central attracted about 610 registrants to Dallas. This was Wes Smith’s inaugural conference as the new President of NAED (after a 40-year career as a distributor.) As is every conference, it was productive if productive is […]


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Wes Smith to Lead NAED
David Gordon Posted On February 6, 2024

Wes Smith - NAED

NAED now has a president and CEO … NAED announced yesterday that Wes Smith has been named President and CEO of the association after an extensive search. According to its press release, “The National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED) has […]


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NEMRA Doubled Down and Won Blackjack Twice
David Gordon Posted On February 6, 2024

NEMRA 24 Double Down

Last week’s NEMRA 2024 Annual Conference was a rousing success with 1975 people registered for the conference. Attendance eclipsed 2023’s numbers of 1916 … congratulations NEMRA. The conference was held for the second year in Las Vegas … and turned […]


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Observations From the Last NAED Eastern – November 2023
David Gordon Posted On December 3, 2023

NAED 2023 Eastern Region Conference

Last month’s NAED Eastern brought an end to an era. NAED announced that this was the last NAED Eastern and the Eastern region will be merged with the NAED SouthCentral, hence the next regional endeavor for attending distributors will be […]


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ElectricalTrends Becomes Media Sponsor of LEDucation
David Gordon Posted On December 3, 2023

LEDucation 2024

ElectricalTrends, a service of Channel Marketing Group, is pleased to be a LEDucation media sponsor, along with our sister publication US Lighting Trends. LEDucation, as many know, is the lighting industry’s only annual lighting event. According to many it is […]


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