Over the past few years there have been a number of AI tools, and companies, launched to support electrical distributors. Many of them launch with one product. Essentially, these are modules for a distributor as they address one issue. They […]
Rexel’s North American group was again the star performer for the company according to their 2026 Q1 earnings call. While the overall business was up only 3.4%, and all regions showed positive growth for the first time in 11 quarters, […]
The industry is losing a friend in a couple of weeks. Joe Huffman, whom many knew as the VP Supplier Relations for CED and also known by many distributors when he was VP Sales for Leviton, announced last week that, […]
Parspec continues to grow and launch new, innovative, tools Recently it was a sales management platform to support lighting agents and now it’s an AI-native project management platform developed with leading electrical distributors to help electrical distributors advance their businesses […]
Graybar yesterday announced that it is expanding its presence in Oklahoma with the acquisition of Broken Arrow Electric Supply. The company, which already had two locations in the state under the Graybar name, will be adding seven more under the […]
When you have $36+ billion in sales, are private, and have a net profit of at least $1.8 billion, you have money to invest into the business. This is Sonepar. This is the company that has invested much in eCommerce […]
WESCO shared their Q4 2025 and full year 2025 earnings on February 10, reporting strong top line performance, growing revenue $6.1 billion, up 10% and 9% organically, driven by a 30% increase in data center sales to $1.2 billion. For the […]
Customer service is one of the services that differentiate distributors. In fact, it is the most critical one as it is the essence of what is delivered to customers … and delivered by your people. Your branch managers are at […]
As the year comes to an end, Sonepar, a leading distributor, and Yanow, a leading manufacturer representative in New England, both announced leadership promotions: Yanow Promotes Eric DeMaio to Partner According to a press release “Yanow, Inc. has announced the […]
The distributor acquisition market has been slow this year. Coming into this year, since 2021, the start of COVID, there had been about 130 distributors acquired, or a little more than 30 per year. This year … a few in […]
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