Occasionally we come across information that can assist your planning. Below is info regarding the MidAtlantic industrial market, the residential market and how to improve warehouse operations. Industrial Planning Information The Mid-Atlantic market region, which includes Maryland, North Carolina, South […]
Just before Thanksgiving we attended the NAED Eastern Region conference which was held at the Marriott Tampa Waterside (which is a good hotel for this meeting). The Eastern kicked-off the 2018 NAED Regional Conference schedule. The meeting had a reported […]
Many distributors know that Acuity has touted its four tier approach to the market. The first two tiers have essentially been the traditional offering of electrical distributors but there has been some mystique to tiers three and four via its […]
Electrical distributors have few ways to benchmark their performance versus competition other than talking to peers. AD’s increased transparency provides some insight into the performance of a group of independent distributors, Graybar shares some high level insights that sometimes can […]
As earning season continues we continue to review analyst calls. Some interesting, some blase, but … And this time we have input from the distribution equipment / controls space – Schneider Electric, Eaton and news from Emerson. Emerson The blockbuster […]
Electrical industry tradeshows start in 4 weeks with AD’s North American Meeting, quickly followed by the IMARK Annual Meeting and the NAED Eastern, and not counting national meetings for national chains. And with the meetings comes talk regarding 2018 joint […]
On Monday we shared manufacturer Q2 performance and rest of year outlook from Littelfuse, Encore Wire, Schneider Electric and Pentair. Today we’re going to review the quarterly reports from GE, Eaton, Emerson, ABB and Hubbell (with the focus solely on […]
What is Amazon Business’ true impact on the electrical distribution channel? It isn’t “point and click”? Over the past few years it’s been said “if you don’t have a commerce-enabled website you’ll be out of business.” The mantra has been […]
This week’s PCBC show, a residential builder show in California that used to be called the Pacific Coast Builder Conference, has an exhibit by Eaton that pulls together three of the company’s divisions and shows the potential that builders can […]
Since the beginning of the year, Wendell Strong from Innovative Lighting has penned an exclusive series for ElectricalTrends titled ““Insights into the World of PoE Lighting Technology.” Wendell has been in the lighting industry for “many” years and has used […]
