For the past month or so electrical manufacturers, reps, distributors and their salespeople have been trying to answer the question of “what is the market forecast for 2012?” When we spoke to people at the NAED Eastern, numbers were varied. […]
The Marriott Marco Island played the backdrop for the latest NAED Eastern Regional meeting. And while there were some who planned on staying through the weekend, turning it into a vacation, and some who had “socialized business meetings” on a […]
The industrial market continues to power growth for many distributors. Recently we spoke with a number of manufacturers and distributors to get the current pulse of the industry. The result … industrial continues to grow fueled by the OEM market, […]
Last week was a tough one for the stock market as it dropped for another week with one day dropping 280 points on a quartet of bad news … low new hiring (only 54,000 new non-farm jobs), the ISM manufacturing purchasing […]
I was returning from a meeting with a client this morning and needed to put gas in the rental before the return. While gas has been creeping up, today was the first time I paid $4.00 per gallon (and yes, […]
The NAED SouthCentral was held last week in San Antonio, TX. Our schedule was chockerblock full with meetings with distributors and manufacturers. In fact, over the 2 1/2 days of the meetings, we didn’t have a break for our typical […]
Just returned from the NEMRA meeting which was held in Boston. And the powers above looked over NEMRA as the weather was great for winter in Boston (it’s snowing there today but last week was blue skies!). The meeting was […]
Sonepar, one of the largest global electrical distributors, recently released some information about its 2010 results, and they are very encouraging. Enough so that the company, globally, intends to grow organically as well as through acquisition (as it recently did with its […]
With the stroke of a tax pen, will businesses migrate? On January 13, 2011 Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a tax bill that effectively raises personal and business taxes on all that live in the state. What was the old […]
Tonight President Obama gave his State of the Union speech. The various political pundits will each have their own spin, but we thought we’d let you take a different tack with the commentary.While much was said (or not said, depending […]
David Gordon
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