On November 9th we posted some thoughts entitled “Taking Advantage of a Downturn” where we quoted some research that proved that investing in sales and marketing during a downturn can enable a compaany to take share and grow their business. […]
The year started off with a division of a national chain changing marketing groups. IMARK announced that USESI, a member of Equity/EDN, had joined the group. In case you are not familiar with USESI, they are the sister company to […]
Sorry haven’t been able to post some thoughts for the past couple of weeks. We’ve been traveling to clients and been in the midst of helping them launch 2009 strategies and adjust operations. We’ve picked up a number of “random” […]
As many know, GE considered selling its GE Appliance division, which consists of GE Appliance and GE Consumer and Industrial (or Lighting and Gear) earlier this year. Subsequently, finding either a slow market and/or few interested parties at the desired […]
On Monday we reported that we had heard that Maurice Electric, Washington DC, had sold their business (to USESI, which operates Electrical Wholesalers) (read the press release). Since then we have heard of a couple of other deals that are […]
Cleaning out the office and the newsletters we receive and wanted to share some observations: Tedmag.com and Bill Attardi’s EnergyWatch alluded to Philips changing the name of Advance Transformer to Philips Lighting Electronics. We asked a couple of distributors about […]
Last week there was a little reported story that mentioned that Haier, a Chinese appliance company, and Blackstone, a private equity firm that the Chinese government made a 10% investment in last year, were considering/bidding for GE Appliances, which includes […]
On the acquisition front that is.Growth can come from multiple ways, even in tough times. While a number of distributors are developing / implementing targeted strategies and some are opening new locations, others are taking advantage of competitor challenges.Given a […]
News reports that offers for GE’s Appliances’ group weren’t high enough and that the company is now looking at spinning off GE’s appliances, lighting and industrial groups could create interesting opportunities for a new entity, presuming it has the financial […]
We might be saying goodbye to GE in the electrical industry in the near future. Although the Appliance group is going first, could lamps be far behind? According to www.wsj.com today, “General Electric plans to start an auction for its […]
