Only 30 days left in the year. And with all of the year-end things to do and possibly meetings you had to attend, many are just getting around to doing their 2017 planning … or at least sales forecasting. The […]
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Many electrical and lighting distributors have devoted resources to marketing, selling and managing utility rebates to support their customers and as a differentiator to earning lighting retrofit projects. Frequently utility rebates are used to support LED sales. The rationale essentially […]
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NAED 2017 Eastern Region Observations
Last week’s NAED 2017 Eastern Region Conference started the association meeting season with a whimper, albeit much of the “lack of energy” may not be attributable to NAED, especially given the need to book meeting space years in advance. The meeting […]
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Leaders and Laggards – Graybar, AD, Grainger and WESCO Q3 Reports
Over the past week we’ve been able to gain a sense of the distribution market with major distribution “networks” reporting quarterly performance. Last week we shared Rexel’s North American (and US) performance. Now we have insight from Graybar, AD and […]
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Lights On, Lights Off – The Tale of Cree and Acuity
You may remember the tv ads for The Clapper. The device where you clapped and the lights went on; clap again and they went off. It appears to be making a comeback, albeit as an analogy for Acuity and Cree. […]
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Rexel’s North American group, which represents 35% of company sales continues to underperform the market. Some highlights / lowlights from their quarterly report: Corporately, organic sales down 4.3% (including negative pricing from copper of .9% worldwide); down 5.6% including currency […]
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Some insights from Encore Wire and Schneider Electric / Square D third quarter earnings. First from Encore and their analyst call: Unit volume for copper was up 1% in pounds and 4% in aluminum pounds in the quarter (while it results […]
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The recent Dodge Construction Outlook report produced by Dodge Data & Analytics is an interesting read. Not only does it provide some historical perspective but provides the understanding for why 2016 has been such a “market specific” economy and also […]
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Construction Process Disruption & 2017 Dodge Construction Forecast
Many at last week’s Dodge Data & Analytics Construction Outlook conference, which coincided with the AD North American Meeting at the same hotel, over 170 manufacturers and retailers attended to gain insights into 2017. While many came for the outlook […]
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AD Ascends
Ascend was the theme of last week’s AD North American Meeting which brought together over 1000 distributors and manufacturers from the U.S., Canada and Mexico. While the theme of “ascend” was defined by Bill Weisberg in various ways as “clarity […]
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