It’s Q2 earning season, providing distributors (and manufacturers) with an opportunity to benchmark their performance, gain insights (or confirmation) on what they are seeing in the market and possibly learn a little from publicly held companies. First up is Grainger whose […]
Earlier this year Codale Electric, a Sonepar operating company, acquired Grove Madsen. Two months later Codale and Grove Madsen have big growth plans. A recent story in the Northern Nevada Business Weekly shared some of the strategies that are in […]
Acuity announced their Q3 results yesterday. In an electrical materials market that continues to be rather anemic, the lighting market continues to outperform and Acuity remains the leader among large lighting players. It appears that Acuity is delivering on all cylinders. […]
LightFair, the pre-eminent lighting tradeshow, was held back in April with large crowds in San Diego. Prior to the show we reached out to some distributors and asked them if they would be willing to share their observations as, given […]
Our friend Bill Attardi at Energy Watch shared interesting data he obtained regarding the exploding growth of the LED market … and the growth is startling and has major ramifications relating to the LED market. Here shared this five year […]
Anixter, Rexel and WESCO make up the electrical industry’s publicly held distributors. Here’s what they said on their recent analyst calls / press releases (and, as usual, we’ll focus on their electrical reports): Anixter From an article in the Daily […]
You may remember the iconic jingle of “Ace is the place with the helpful hardware folks” but did you know that Ace is the place for LED lighting? According to an article in the April issue of Hardware & Building Supply […]
Last week DISC Corp updated its 2016 outlook for the electrical industry through its Flash Update. Overall the projection was for the electrical industry to be down 1.5% however, Herm highlighted that there are customer segments that are outperforming the […]
With Q1 coming to an end, market (as in industry, not Wall Street), watchers are projecting a continuing, and slightly accelerated, sales decline, at the national level, especially for those in the industrial segment. (But do read down to the […]
Last week Houston Wire & Cable held it’s Q4 / 2015 annual earnings call. As many in the industry know, Houston Wire and Cable, while categorized as a manufacturer, is, in reality, more of a master distributor given that they […]
