As we’ve seen over the past couple of months with the entry of Cisco into the lighting space and emergence of PoE, the lighting space is changing. By virtue of the technology is there a significant risk that a percentage […]
The lighting market continues to represent some of the greatest opportunities for distributors. At the recent NAED South-Central, every lighting manufacturer reported minimum 2015 sales increases of 20%. Goals for 2016 are the same, if not higher. The market is […]
Stan and I attended the NAED South-Central, held in Las Vegas, last week. Reportedly 630 or so people were registered, albeit the “feel” of the meeting left one wondering “where are the people” as the general session seemed lightly attended […]
Recently we touched on how the emergence of connected lighting is opening new opportunities for manufacturers and could for distributors. The reason for “could” is that the opportunity potentially can be much more than selling fixtures. It could explode into […]
The growth in the LED market has been remarkable, coming from zero to probably at least 50% of new construction in a short time period is phenomenal for a “new” product. And the retrofit market continues to move to LEDs. […]
Over the past month, Allen and I have discussed our observations regarding the industry and shared trends we see that we think will impact business for distributors and manufacturers in 2016. We’ve agreed upon 16 sales, marketing, profitability and operations opportunities that we’d […]
It’s the beginning of earnings season again and we’ve reviewed Acuity’s and Cree’s. It appears to be a tale of two companies. Both are having success in the LED space with Acuity’s net sales up 14% and Cree’s up 11%. The […]
Over the past 30 days there have been a number of lighting announcements that, individually are company-specific but, when aggregated and considered from a category viewpoint, represent a significant lighting change in the industry … and may require distributors to […]
The term LEDs is synonymous with energy savings. They typical distributor either promotes LEDs as an energy savings initiative or quotes lighting projects that specify LEDs as the light / lamp source. There is nothing wrong with either but, as […]
As you’re planning your 2016 initiatives, we thought we’d share some LED, construction and industrial information we’ve seen that could impact 2016 revenue planning or opportunity focus: Our friend Bill Attardi from EnergyWatchNews directed us to this article, Top 10 […]
