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Live Event Today – LEADsmart’s Around the Horn
David Gordon Posted On February 21, 2025

Around the Horn LEADsmart

I’m looking forward to being a guest today on LEADsmart’s Around the Horn. If you haven’t heard of Around the Horn, it is a live podcast (yes, you can watch it on LinkedIn), with LEADsmart’s Kevin Brown and Tom Burton. […]


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Happy New Year … Top 24 for 2024
David Gordon Posted On December 30, 2024

Happy New Year - Channel Marketing Group

As 2024 comes to a close, I wanted to thank you for your support, interest, input, and most importantly, friendship over the years. This year has been another busy year. Aside from our consulting work on behalf of manufacturers, manufacturer […]


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Acquisitions … for Manufacturers, Distributors, and Reps Continue
David Gordon Posted On December 9, 2024

M&A Mergers acquisitions

The electrical industry continues to consolidate. Three more acquisitions were announced last week and there were a couple of manufacturer deals from last month that we haven’t gotten to comment on. Manufacturers Three deals: Legrand Acquires Power Bus Last week […]


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Acquisition Activity Ramps Up in early Sept. 3 Electrical Distributors and 2 Agents
David Gordon Posted On September 5, 2024

Electrical Distributor Deals

With summer, and Q3, coming to a close, what better time for electrical industry acquisition activity to ramp up. And while each company has its own rationale for why it did the deal, each represents an idea that could be […]


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Cupertino Electric Acquired by Quanta Services
David Gordon Posted On July 18, 2024

Quanta Acquires Cupertino Electric

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 […]


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The Second Derivative of Acquisitions / Mergers
David Gordon Posted On July 9, 2024

Second Derivatives of Acquisitions

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 […]


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Schaedler Yesco Celebrates 100, Shares Historical Timeline
David Gordon Posted On May 28, 2024

Schaedler Yesco Celebrates 100 Years

Two things typically occur when you get to be 100 years old … You are celebrated You may tend to forget a few of your accomplishments and need to be reminded (or so I’m told!) Schaedler Yesco is celebrating its […]


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nVent’s Sustainability Report, Observations and Questions
David Gordon Posted On April 21, 2024

nVent Sustainability Report

The drive for “sustainability” is powering the green movement and much of the electrification initiatives that are supporting the electrical industry, culminating in sales for distributors and manufacturers. From a more all-encompassing viewpoint, the term “sustainability” represents even broader initiatives […]


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Investing in the Industry … ACES Invests in Apprentices
David Gordon Posted On November 19, 2023

ACES CECA Apprentices

With the electrical industry being challenged with staffing at all levels, it’s important for electrical distributors and manufacturers to invest in those who desire to be part of the industry (apprentices) as these are tomorrow’s customers … either as installers […]


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Yanow Expands to New York
David Gordon Posted On August 6, 2023

Yanow Expands to New York

Yanow Inc., a leading electrical manufacturers’ representative, serving the six New England states, and celebrating its 75th anniversary, is undertaking expansion. The agency recently announced that it now serves New York State, representing the following manufacturers: The following Atkore Brands […]


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