Last week Amazon made an acquisition, spending $3.9 billion, and it should be very good for electrical distributors. Why you ask? Because maybe it will put to rest the ever-ending question of “who will Amazon buy to enter the electrical […]
Over the past several years, a variety of lighting trends have combined to impact the school and higher education lighting retrofit market. One example is the plummeting cost of LED lighting products. LED tube lamps, also known as TLEDs, have […]
It’s not often that the acquisition of a distributor’s “customer” would be newsworthy from a national scale but SJE’s recent acquisition of Horlick, a New England based system integrator caught our attention. Why? Because the acquirer, SJE, is also owned […]
For the past few years, one of the biggest contributors to the commercial construction sectors growth has been the warehouse space segment. And the company predominately responsible for this has been Amazon. In fact, when Dodge Analytics did its 2022 […]
If your electrical business relies heavily on home construction, you might want to expand your inventory of outdoor lighting and ceiling fans, according to survey results released by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) at this month’s International Builders’ […]
Back in the fall, HMI released a white paper, researched and written by Channel Marketing Group, titled “6 Contractor Trends Affecting Distributor Relationships”. The report focused on 6 specific areas that over 750 contractors from a number of construction industries. […]
Electrical distributors who offer smart home products such as light bulbs, video doorbells, door locks, garage door openers, and thermostats might want to promote and expand their offering in order to take advantage of the growing demand for this category […]
Tis the time of the year for gift giving and companies continue to bestow gifts unto themselves and the management teams they are buying with late season gifts. Just this week there have been 4 manufacturing companies acquired. Signify Acquires […]
City Electric, the Texas-based, $1 billion plus electrical distributor with over 525 locations, and seemingly another location opening every week, throughout the country continued the rash of recent electrical distributor acquisitions, this time with a twist. The twist is that […]
Over the past few weeks three of the industry’s major distributors (Graybar, Rexel and WESCO) either made news and/or shared their Q3 performance which provides some insights into the industry and customer segments. DISC Insights DISC just released their Q3 […]
