From time to time, we get a chance to communicate with some of the industry executives of the near past. Recently we had the pleasure of speaking with Herb Slater, formerly the President of Slater Electric and Duplex Electric Supply. For those of […]
Does the downturn leave you thinking you have to scale the Alps for a come back? Maybe and then maybe not! Change is in the air both at inventory levels and the way product is being sold. This is about […]
As many know, NAED held it’s 2010 National Electrical Leadership Summit this past weekend. There were about 83 distributor companies represented and 74 manufacturer companies. While the distributor attendance improved, it seemed like the manufacturer number declined, especially small to […]
A little bit of a reading roundup before this weekend’s NAED Leadership Summit. Recently there has been array of news from 3M, GE, Home Depot, Rexel, Square D, Datalliance, CED and Hilti to get us going (or at least cause some […]
Given the dramatic decline in industry revenues over the past 18 months, many have wondered when consolidation will occur and are surprised that they haven’t seen more than a few. We agree, and from talking with a number of potential […]
Last week I visited a client in support of their strategic planning and marketing initiatives. As usual the question arose, “what are you seeing in the market?” And my answer this time was a little difference. I summarized the market […]
There have been some recent changes at HD Supply … some announced and some unannounced (yet) that appear may answer the question “What is HD Supply’s future?” As you may know, Home Depot recently wrote down its valuation of HD […]
People ask “what are we seeing in the market” to correlate it with what they are seeing and to integrate into their planning. And what we are seeing comes down to with challenges (we’re being nice) in the resi market […]
An Atlanta Journal Constitution article entitled “HD Supply CEO surprised by Home Depot move” provided some interesting observations regarding HD Supply: HD Supply’s sales have dropped $5 billion in 3 years, down to $7 billion. While it’s presumed much was […]
On Monday there was an article in the WSJ entitled Copper Vets Make Bet with Start-up Firm. The article discussed the launch of a new mining company that is going to search for overlooked deposits of copper and possibly other […]
