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! […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
With the electrical industry being challenged with staffing at all levels, it’s important for electrical distributors and manufacturers to invest in those who desire to be part of the industry (apprentices) as these are tomorrow’s customers … either as installers […]
Earlier this month, along with about 10,000 of my friends and 2-3,000 electrical apprentices, I visited the Philadelphia Convention Center to attend the NECA Conference. While this annual event is designed to support electrical union contractors, it may evolve into […]
Distributor consolidation continues and may be ramping up to close the year strong with three more electrical distributors announcing deals. In the past week there were three deals announced. Sonepar (Viking) acquires Sunrise Electric The largest was Sonepar’s Viking Electric […]
Summer is seemingly less busy for acquisitions. During Q2 we had eight distributor acquisitions. Last month Graybar acquired Shepherd Electric and this month started with two independent electrical manufacturer representatives being acquired by a firm owned / backed by a […]
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