Last week WESCO and Grainger released their fourth quarter reports and shared some comments looking forward. As the two seem to be a barometer for the industrial market (overall, not always from a company performance side), we looked to see […]
For some reason when it comes to December manufacturers seem to make a flurry of moves with a number being of the acquisitive type. Don’t know why, but… And there are other manufacturer “happenings” that we’ve heard of. So, as […]
Over the past week we’ve been able to gain a sense of the distribution market with major distribution “networks” reporting quarterly performance. Last week we shared Rexel’s North American (and US) performance. Now we have insight from Graybar, AD and […]
Ascend was the theme of last week’s AD North American Meeting which brought together over 1000 distributors and manufacturers from the U.S., Canada and Mexico. While the theme of “ascend” was defined by Bill Weisberg in various ways as “clarity […]
Last week we shared information, highlighted the potential opportunities and discussed potential distributor involvement in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) arena while also featuring the first segment of input from Dick Friedman. As promised, […]
Whether it is IoT or IIoT, the Internet of Things is all the rage. You can’t pick up a trade publication without seeing an article on either topic. And in reality they are essentially the same with the only difference […]
2016 has been a challenging year for many industrially-oriented electrical distributors. Between the decline and ripple effects of oil and gas markets, the strength of the dollar constricting the OEM market, the agricultural equipment market stagnating and economic growth being […]
Earlier in the week we covered distributor quarterly earnings and now we’ll cover some manufacturers – Eaton, Emerson, Pentair (Hoffman & Erico) and Littelfuse. Eaton From their slide presentation: Overall organic sales, company-wide, down 4%, which isn’t as meaningful for […]
Last week the electrical industry’s major, publicly held, distributors shared their Q2 performance. Reading their quarterly reports highlights that there continue to be industrial challenges, they are responding differently to the MRO and construction markets. So let’s look at WESCO […]
We’re in the summer earnings season so we’ll start to look at what some of the publicly held electrical manufacturers and distributors are saying, with a focus on their U.S. business. We’ll start with Rockwell and Hubbell. Rockwell From their slide […]
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