Hope you had a wonderful July 4th weekend with your family? While July 4th celebrates independence it also is a moment for reflection and appreciation of the American spirit. A sense of resilience, perseverance, ingenuity. A “can do” / “will […]
Hope you had a wonderful July 4th weekend with your family? While July 4th celebrates independence it also is a moment for reflection and appreciation of the American spirit. A sense of resilience, perseverance, ingenuity. A “can do” / “will […]
Last week Acuity shared their fiscal Q3 earnings report (Q2 performance). Overall, their lighting performance correlated with our 2020 Q2 Pulse of Lighting report and they outperformed in their “independent” (electrical distribution) channel. They will probably do good this summer […]
Channel Marketing Group’s 2020 Q2 Pulse of Lighting Report (available for purchase for $19) projects that the lighting market, through electrical distribution, contracted by 20%. The survey, conducted the third week in June, received responses from 164 individuals who equally […]
COVID has heightened the benefit or, and interest in, eCommerce for electrical distributors. Our second and third COVID-19 Electrical Market Sentiment Reports have shown that those with an eCommerce offering have seen online sales increases. Further, from conversations with distributors, […]
The results of our fourth COVID-19 Market Sentiment study (click to purchase report) are in and the electrical distribution industry is back to work, and sales are improving and the electrical industry is moving ahead. Based upon feedback from over […]
Over the past month, according to our current survey, which closes today, sales for many distributors have stabilized or improved. This which makes sense given construction is open in all states and states have opened their economies to varying degrees. […]
Lighting is an important product category for most electrical distributors. Depending upon the distributor’s focus, it can be 25-30%, or higher, of sales! Most distributor’s view the lighting “customer” as “the contractor” (installer). Some consider it the end-user and sell […]
For many the industry came to a screeching halt in mid-March. Companies stopped travel, states went into lock-down, most construction across the country stopped. Those in the industry in the North East, parts of the West Coast, Pennsylvania and Michigan […]
No, we’re not being flippant. The pandemic has been disruptive to all, destructive for many (especially those who contracted COVID as well as in business consequences for many) and tragic for those who lost loved ones. And, for all, it […]
With the benefit of retrospect, we can presume that the number of electrical distribution start-ups will mimic those in the past ten years … in other words, very few and those that have had success, defined as significant growth, are […]
David Gordon
Channel Marketing Group
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