Perhaps you remember the playing card game called 52 Pickup (and if you don’t, here’s a link to remind you.) With lighting agents having a minimum of 52 lines, it seems like they are updating their linecard regularly. And sometimes […]
The M&A people at Sonepar, and the M&A people at a number of advisory services supporting electrical distributor continue to be busy. Yesterday Sonepar announced that it acquired Echo Electric Supply. While many may not be familiar with the company, […]
Nowadays it’s difficult to tell if the US electrical distribution market is following its northern counterpart or if the Canadian market is following the US market. While the Canadian market has historically been 10-12% the size of the US market, […]
The electrical industry has seen much consolidation over the past 4 years. We’ve reported on manufacturer, distributor, and manufacturer representative / agent consolidation. While we have not reported on contractor acquisitions, there has been a trend in service-oriented trades, at […]
Last month nVent announced that it entered a definitive agreement to acquire Trachte, manufacturer of custom-engineered control building solutions designed to protect critical infrastructure assets. The deal closed on July 16th. The original press release was: “Leading manufacturer of custom-engineered […]
The first US acquisition of the second half of the year and the third Canadian acquisition since July 1st were announced yesterday. Rexel’s Mayer division and Lawson Products, Canada, made acquisitions. Mayer Electric Acquires Electrical Supplies Inc , an operating […]
The second half of the year has started and the first week brought acquisitions / mergers and news that will, and could, influence many other factors. In most industry acquisitions, the acquisition of one company by another typically has most […]
Since 2020 the electrical distribution industry has seen 102 (or so) distributors sell their business. Additionally, we’re seeing manufacturer representatives and lighting agents undergoing ownership transitions. In many instances it is due to lack of family business succession planning. You […]
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to participate in MDM’s Top Distributor podcast with Mike Hockett and Tom Gale from MDM as well as Craig Webb from Webb Analytics (who talked about the Building Supplies industry) and […]
Another week, another acquisition in the electrical distribution industry. Last week, Fields Electrical Sales, an independent manufacturer representative covering Ohio, Michigan, western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia was sold to Forward Solutions, whom you may recall acquired ElectroRep and R/B Sales […]
