Q3 is coming to an end and with it is time for our Q3 Pulse of Lighting survey, conducted in conjunction with William Blair. Our Q2 report received feedback from almost 200 distributors, manufacturers and manufacturer reps and projected a […]
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!) […]
We’re at the mid-year and we’re hearing a wide array of distributor and manufacturer performance. Industry forecasters state the market should be around 6% which begs the question, are you above the industry forecast and growing or are you letting […]
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 […]
Earlier this year we launched our quarterly Pulse of Lighting study in conjunction with William Blair, a leading investment analyst firm. The Q1 report may have surprised some of the larger lighting companies with feedback from distributors. Now we have […]
Recently two well-known rep agencies in the Gulf Coast area, JD Martin and The Schell Company, “merged”. JD Martin Co, has locations in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Oklahoma City and didn’t change. The Schell Company changed its name to Schell Martin […]
ElectricalTrends, a service of Channel Marketing Group, is pleased to announce that we will be a co-sponsor of the B2B Next conference this September in Chicago. This conference is different than many of the eCommerce conferences that are marketed to […]
Independent Electric Supply, www.iesbuy.com, is pleased to announce the addition of Taylor Troy as Digital Marketing Specialist. Taylor has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design. In her new role, Taylor will be responsible for IES online presence and its […]
