That’s one of the questions we’ve had a number of distributors, and some manufacturers, ask this week “What’s the story / what have you heard about this story regarding Schneider, Legrand, Rexel and Sonepar coming out of France?” and the […]
For the past few years many have talked about eCommerce and have made investment plans. Now a number of these investments are coming to fruition and the conversation is evolving to “where is this going?”, “what are customers doing / […]
Corporate success, for many, is typically defined as sales success as sales revenue is an easily identifiable, and discussed / shared, metric. But in a quest to grow sales, and due to competitive pressures, gross margins for many distributors have […]
The company formerly known as Mayer Electric Supply made a small but subtle move recently and changed its name to Mayer. Along with the name change came an evolved brand and updated logo and mark. For a company that is […]
Over the past couple of weeks national chains and groups announced their Q2 performance, shedding insight for others regarding the health of the market. Below are Q2 2018 overviews from AD, Grainger, Anixter, Graybar, Rexel and WESCO. And, it appears, […]
Every year hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested / spent by manufacturers to solicit preference from distributors. In fact, about 10 years ago we estimated over $500M was spent in rebate funding. (Today we estimate over $1 billion!) […]
Grainger shared its 2018 Q2 performance earlier this week and, given their industrial MRO focus, highlighted continued strength in this customer segment. And while they are not focused in the electrical space, they are about a $1B electrical player as […]
Looking back over last quarter there were a number of acquisitions in the electrical / lighting industry. Reasons for the deals can be based upon: A desire for accelerated growth Expansion into geographic markets Desire to leverage infrastructure and/or support […]
Last week Acuity released its latest quarterly report (covering Q2 2018 time period.) At the headline number the business met the feedback we received from distributors in our Q2 Pulse of Lighting study (or here to purchase the report for $19) and […]
NAED held its 2018 Women in Industry (WII) conference the last week in June and it was one of the most talked about conference that I have heard about in a while. I received feedback from a number of clients […]
