As we close out 2012 we wanted to thank you for your readership, support and comments. Through today we’ve had: Almost 9600 readers visit the site over 21,000 times and read almost 53,000 pages while our subscriber list continues to […]
Something to catch us up a little … a little Reader’s Roundup covering recent (and pending) acquisitions which may accelerate in generating announcements between now and the end of the year, Sonepar’s internship program, apps for electricians (which could be […]
The week before Thanksgiving NAED held its Eastern Region conference in Hollywood (Ft Lauderdale), Florida. Due to travel and the holiday it was not possible to share our observations and some of the conversations we had, so … According […]
As many know, the scope, and business dynamics, of the Canadian electrical marketplace is different than here in the States. A couple of key benchmarks: The Canadian market is “ballparked” at about 10% of the electrical spend in the US […]
Last week another round of incredulity went through the industry as another acquisition was announced. Munro Distributing, an electrical distributor in Fall River, MA with 12 locations who serviced electrical contractors and is active in the solar market and in the energy […]
Last week AD held its 2012 North American Meeting for its electrical division. 841 people were in attendance, including myself as Channel Marketing Group is a service provider to AD affiliates and manufacturers.During the 2 1/2 days there was much […]
As I was cleaning out my email this weekend I thought, “good time for a reading round-up”, especially given some of the news that has been coming out this month.September starts the meeting season with two early meetings being a […]
As many know, I worked for an electrical industry marketing / buying group years ago and part of my role was membership recruitment … so I’ve “sold” the value-added of a marketing group.But what got me thinking about the topic […]
This month we’ve seen an acceleration in the acquisition game for distributorwww.codale.coms and manufacturers. Consider on the distribution front: Kaman buys Zeller (which we commented on) Crescent buys McCullough in Pittsburgh (a Schneider Electric automation house, giving Crescent 2 locations […]
Last week a new competitor was introduced to the industry … and distributors, probably primarily Schneider Electric distributors that are authorized Automation and Control distributors, were introduced to a new acquirer (and competitor). Graybar also probably now has a new […]
