It appears that the company that Thomas Edison founded, GE, will shortly be out of the electrical industry … or mostly. “Phase three” of the exit, as reported by the Edison Report via a copy of an internal letter, was […]
At the NAED Annual meeting I asked distributors, manufacturers and others who typically hear about mergers / acquisitions what they were hearing. Not so much about specific companies but more in general … were they hearing of activity. All said […]
The auction of GE Industrial Solutions has moved to the next phase according to a Reuters story. As many know, it was put on the block in mid-December and acquirers lined up to receive “the book” last month. Many are […]
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 […]
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 […]
Last week’s NAED 2017 Eastern Region Conference started the association meeting season with a whimper, albeit much of the “lack of energy” may not be attributable to NAED, especially given the need to book meeting space years in advance. The meeting […]
What do Crescent Electric and Walmart have in common? They both have recently made eCommerce acquisitions … and probably for the same reasons. And both, probably, have been frustrated with the pace of their eCommerce initiative. Consider this: Walmart just […]
The LED revolution is now complete. The historical Big 3 lamp companies are essentially either out of the business (Philips and OSRAM Sylvania under new owners) or removed from the business (GE). OSRAM Sylvania’s announcement that LEDVANCE has now been […]
Last week Cree streamlined its business by divesting of its Wolfspeed business in an endeavor to expand its lighting business. Wolfspeed, Power and RF division, which includes the silicon carbide substrate business for power, RF and gemstone applications, and was the […]
Earlier this year Codale Electric, a Sonepar operating company, acquired Grove Madsen. Two months later Codale and Grove Madsen have big growth plans. A recent story in the Northern Nevada Business Weekly shared some of the strategies that are in […]
