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Increasing Sales Effectiveness, a COVID Opportunity?
David Gordon Posted On April 8, 2020

Post COVID Sales Effectiveness Tools

A potential outcome of COVID-19 is a rethinking of sales organizations. You’ve now had an opportunity to consider their effectiveness in a different sales environment and hopefully are starting to think about your sales organization “post COVID”. Consider … prior […]


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Coronavirus Sales BC vs PC
David Gordon Posted On April 1, 2020

Coronavirus Sales BC vs PC

We’re in an environment that could be called BC vs PC – Before Coronavirus and Post Coronavirus. The challenge is that PC, which could be defined as Q3 and Q4 don’t look pretty. Everyone, at least manufacturers, are asking “what […]


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Electrical Industry COVID-19 Market Sentiment
David Gordon Posted On March 31, 2020

COVID 19 Electrical Market Sentiment Survey

Understanding the financial impact of COVID-19 on the electrical channel is a real challenge.  That’s why we launched, and can now report from, our Electrical Industry COVID-19 Market Sentiment Report. (available for $50 with 50% of proceeds to the Gary […]


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Electrical Industry Reacts to COVID-19 – Ideas to Share
David Gordon Posted On March 26, 2020

Electrical Distribution Industry COVID-19 Reaction & Ideas

COVID-19 has directly been impacting the electrical distribution industry for about two weeks and we’ve been aware of it, due to supply concerns coming from China for about six weeks.  We’ve learned much such as the affect on the lighting […]


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The Future of Distribution Equipment Manufacturers?
David Gordon Posted On March 10, 2020

Distribution Equipment

As Crescent Electric gets ready for a changing of the guard with Marty Burbridge retiring later this month, more change is occurring within the company. For most, if not all, of its existence Crescent has been aligned with GE.  Through […]


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Launch of ETIM North America to Support Electrical Industry Needs
David Gordon Posted On February 20, 2020

ETIM North America

The web, and more importantly digitalization, is changing the way business is being done.  Aside from eCommerce, digital initiatives are becoming embedded into business processes and communication methods.  And it is going to go “deeper” with endeavors broadening into machine […]


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Rexel Up Globally but Down in US
David Gordon Posted On February 18, 2020

Rexel Quarterly Earnings

Being global can have its ups and down. As a company you become susceptible to currency issues as well as differing economic challenges. It appears that Rexel is benefiting in areas of the globe but suffering here in North America […]


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Grainger Q4 Growth Rate Slows
David Gordon Posted On February 11, 2020

Grainger Earnings

Grainger usually provides a good barometer of the industrial and commercial MRO markets and the “healthy” of large companies, so let’s take a quick look at their Q4 and outlook for 2020. Grainger earnings call and slides Grainger introduced a […]


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Werner Electric Turns 100
David Gordon Posted On February 10, 2020


In a world of distribution consolidation, it is becoming less and less frequent for a distributor to achieve the ripe old age of 100. And especially to know the day! Werner Electric, located in Cottage Grove, MN, just outside Minneapolis, […]


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Digging into Anixter
David Gordon Posted On February 9, 2020

Anixter

Given that Anixter has been in the consciousness of many in the industry lately due to WESCO’s successful acquisition bid, thought it may be informative to take a deeper dive into Anixter’s recent Q4 / end of year report. Some […]


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