While we were unable to attend the NAED Western due to client commitments, we did receive some input from some of our friends: Attendance was strong, albeit no one seemed to know why (other than people wanting to go to […]
Welcome back from the holidays. We hope everyone was able to spend time with family and we wish all of our readers a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.And with a new year we thought we’d share some crystal ball […]
The week before Thanksgiving NAED held its Eastern Region conference in Hollywood (Ft Lauderdale), Florida. Due to travel and the holiday it was not possible to share our observations and some of the conversations we had, so … According […]
Recently I was flipping through the October issue of ElectroIndustry, NEMA’s publication, and saw this ad for IDEA recognizing their Platinum manufacturers. While this is a recognition program, it recognizes these 28 manufacturers for the quality of their data in […]
Last week AD held its 2012 North American Meeting for its electrical division. 841 people were in attendance, including myself as Channel Marketing Group is a service provider to AD affiliates and manufacturers.During the 2 1/2 days there was much […]
I’ve been debating for a month or so about whether I should write this posting or not but, as the continued dripping of economic data comes out and healthcare has been ruled “legal”, I thought “let’s give our readership the […]
Last week the NAED Annual was held in Washington DC and, while we’re sure that NAED will announce strong attendance, it seemed like a very quiet event…perhaps because the hotel is a little spreadout, perhaps because many meetings took place […]
We just came back from the NAED South-Central in Orlando wanted to share our observations, in no particular order: The lobby seemed to be regularly packed, as was the 1st night reception (the 2nd night seemed to have 1/3rd the […]
At ElectricalTrends our goal is to share industry observations and trends to help electrical distributors and electrical manufacturers with their business as well as comment on industry activities. We gather our insights from publicly available information, which can include industry […]
The Marriott Marco Island played the backdrop for the latest NAED Eastern Regional meeting. And while there were some who planned on staying through the weekend, turning it into a vacation, and some who had “socialized business meetings” on a […]
David Gordon
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