Living here in Raleigh, just minutes away from Cree (located in Durham), creates opportunities to receive additional press coverage on Cree. Last week the Triangle Business Journal had an article on Cree titled “Four reasons Durham’s Cree is on track […]
We’re continuing to see a correlation between a distributor’s focus on selling LED lighting and their sales performance. Perhaps it creates an opportunity to get in front of a customer and eventually sell them additional products; perhaps it’s solely to […]
Will the demise of yesterday’s light bulb (lamp) lead to changing lighting fixture / lamp manufacturer relationships? Had an interesting discussion today with a distributor regarding lighting / lamp manufacturers which created the thought of “what is the future of these […]
Last week I was at the NAED South-Central which was held in Tampa. While the reported attendance was about 675-700 individuals, consisting of 75 distributor entities (including multiples of CED, Sonepar, etc), 122 manufacturer entities, and the remainder being reps […]
Last week during a conversation with a client we talked about the concept of the 7 layers of an onion. The concept, for those of you who don’t know, is that as you peel back the layers of the onion […]
Last week I attended the NAED Western which was held at the Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix. I hadn’t attended the Western in awhile so it was good to see a number of old friends on the distributor side as […]
Okay, so you’ve seen lots of “predictions” or “trends” by every publication for 2014. So, not to be left out, we thought our first post of the year should share some thoughts / ideas that are industry specific for 2014. […]
As we get ready to close the page on another successful year, we wanted to thank you for your readership and support.Over the past year we’ve: posted 69 thoughts, observations and insights which we hope were beneficial to you had […]
Just before Thanksgiving we attended the NAED Eastern which was held in Orlando. Approximately 560 individuals registered for the conference. According to the registration list, only 62 distributors were listed and this included elements of some companies being listed multiple […]
Last week there were industry reports of a couple of acquisitions and some branch openings (and there were probably more that weren’t reported).Consider … CED purchased Davis Wholesale in Hollywood, CA Steiner Electric purchase State Electrical in Wisconsin Graybar opened […]
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