The post, GE and ABB – A Done Deal Yet? Almost, was written Sunday night before my early morning departure to head to the AD North American Meeting. Now we have confirmation of a deal … ABB has purchased GE […]
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Q2 Manufacturer Updates … GE, Emerson, ABB, Eaton, Hubbell
On Monday we shared manufacturer Q2 performance and rest of year outlook from Littelfuse, Encore Wire, Schneider Electric and Pentair. Today we’re going to review the quarterly reports from GE, Eaton, Emerson, ABB and Hubbell (with the focus solely on […]
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Last week we reviewed the Q2 performance updates of publicly held electrical distributors as well as other national organizations that share their performance. This week we’ll review some of the Q2 manufacturer performance reports (and the list of companies is […]
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Service Agreements / Extended Warranties – Revenue Generator & Potential Differentiator
Distributors have been seeking opportunities to generate, or increase, their service revenue. While traditionally a complementary service for industrially-oriented distributors, construction-oriented distributors are also seeing opportunities. Some distributors have defined revenue goals, others look at this opportunistically (or give the […]
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At this week’s Rockwell Automation TechLED Rockwell announced a new partnership with Manpower to train (“upskill”) 1,000 veterans per year. The new initiative, reported by Control magazine, is designed to help address the expected shortage in skilled automation staff that […]
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Q1 reporting is starting for many manufacturers and publicly held distributors in the electrical space. Over the next week we’ll share overviews and insights but today we’ll start with WESCO‘s Q1 report. WESCO was pleased that it beat its earnings […]
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10 Trends for the Industrial Automation and Control Market
For the past couple of years the industrial segment has been “challenged”. Much of this was driven by the decline in the oil & gas market which had a significant ripple effect. Concurrently, a strong dollar hurt exports for many […]
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Industrial Market Drivers, Can You Compete Differently
Over the past few weeks distributors and manufacturers are reporting an uptick in their industrial business and, in some cases, a significant increase. The reasons vary from “general optimism” to the increase in oil rigs; from replacing / upgrading aging equipment […]
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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 […]
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December Manufacturer Moves
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 […]
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