Home Depot shared its fourth quarter earnings report today. Overall, they ended the year hitting it out of the park. While they obviously benefited from COVID and the “stay at home” and building boom, they also reaped the rewards of […]
The year has started at a torrid pace but there have been some highlights relating to acquisitions, sales models, strategic relationships, POS, ETIM and more. With COVID driving everyone to online planning it seems like there everyone is on a […]
Hubbell distributors can now provide their residential construction and management professionals – builders, designers, architects, engineers, managers and more – an exciting suite of iDevices smart home automation products! Helping building pros meet the latest customer needs The iDevices offering includes networkable dimmer switches, […]
If you talk to manufacturers and NEMRA reps this month you’d wonder if there was going to be any sales in the industry this month! So many people are involved in web planning meetings. There are more “national sales meetings” […]
January 1 marked the turning of the calendar and with it we think “a new year.” 2020 was an “interesting” year. Few, if any, recall the first 75 days of 2020 and the promise, or concerns, that ushered in the […]
2020 is winding down and we’d like to thank you for your readership of ElectricalTrends. This year we had over 113,000 page views, which represented a 10% increase over 2019. Lots of different topics were covered through over 90 new […]
Companies involved in the power distribution space have recently made a number of announcements that we thought were newsworthy: ABB At its recent Investor Day meeting, ABB’s CEO announced the plan to divest of three business units. One is from […]
With COVID interrupting our lives, IDEAL Electric was committed to continue with its IDEAL National initiative. The rationale was pretty straightforward – they wanted to continue to recognize electricians for their efforts and maintain the momentum they have created in […]
The major story in the distribution industry yesterday was Home Depot acquiring HD Supply. While many electrical distributors may wonder “why the coverage” as “we don’t compete with them”, the reality is that Home Depot and HD Supply are competing […]
Last week Acuity shared its Q4 performance, which also coincided with the end of their fiscal year. While the headline number was a decrease of only 5%, that’s an aggregate. Looking at the details is of greater interest to those […]
