As companies “reopen”, travel has resumed for many … and so have industry meetings. Some, like AHTD, maintained their conference schedule (they ran their fall one in Salt Lake City and had a spring meeting in Florida). Others are currently […]
Understanding growth potential within a market requires marketplace insights that help identify the size of the market as well as specific product category potential. These data points help support strategy development, resource allocation and identify if there is enough growth […]
As usual, the lighting market is active, so it must be time for our Q2 Pulse of Lighting update. Active? Consider: Acuity made two acquisitions this quarter that provide it greater technology resources – the Digital Signage business from ams […]
Grainger and Fastenal shared their Q1 earnings reports recently. Given that both focus on the MRO market and, from an industrial MRO viewpoint, are considered relatively comparable competitors, they can serve as a proxy for the MRO market, although electrical […]
The last week or so has been earnings week for many electrical companies where they shared their Q1 performance. As expected, all showed improvement versus last year (after all, the last two weeks were the beginning of the COVID shutdown). […]
Last month Christian Sokoll from DISC shared an electrical industry forecast that depicted accelerated growth for the industry. We all know about the price increases that are occurring in the industry let alone some of the “why’s” (supply and demand […]
Many talk about digitizing the channel and the emerging / present digitalization of the industry and then wonder why eCommerce as a percent of distributor sales is not higher. One major reason is for many distributors their key customer is […]
Have you noticed that with all the manufacturer and distributor mergers & acquisitions, that manufacturers representatives are following a similar strategy? For reference, since last August: There have been at least four major mergers of lighting agencies (most notably in […]
Contrary to reports coming from Washington, there is a war for talent going on in the electrical industry and it is going to get worse. Consider: If you track LinkedIn you’ll see that there have been many in the electrical […]
The first quarter saw a number of industry acquisitions and, while individually they highlight company growth initiatives, collectively they signal a trend that could be transformative for the industry … an industry divide driven by size. Yes, the big are […]
David Gordon
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