Chicken Little arrived in the US in mid-March and declared “the world is falling”, and it started to … and has. Humpty Dumpty fell and he then said, since his horsemen were missing (probably unemployed), “Carmen Sandiego will help in […]
COVID-19 continues to run rampant throughout the country. When we conducted our first Electrical Market Sentiment Report we went from zero to twenty-seven states under “shelter-in-place”. Our recently released second report, Mid-April COVID-19 Electrical Market Sentiment Report, which shares input […]
Have you felt “overwhelmed” with the amount of COVID-19 information that has been arriving in your mailbox the past couple of weeks? Rather than post this information regularly, hopefully curating it to identify some key content and sharing some concepts […]
Companies large and small talk about eCommerce. Progressive firms are talking the concept of eCommerce and broadening it to digitalization and then considering “digital transformation”. Essentially “digital transformation” encompasses identifying the multitude of opportunities within an organization to automate processes […]
What a difference a week makes! You may recall that late last month, based upon economic data through March 20th, DISC forecasted that the electrical industry would be down over 12% at the end of the year due to COVID-19. […]
Q1 is done and while data from what is known as BC (before COVID-19) seems like from the dark ages, it can be informative if considered in a trending environment. While last week DISC shared a preliminary, probably optimistic, end […]
We’re in an environment that could be called BC vs PC – Before Coronavirus and Post Coronavirus. The challenge is that PC, which could be defined as Q3 and Q4 don’t look pretty. Everyone, at least manufacturers, are asking “what […]
Understanding the financial impact of COVID-19 on the electrical channel is a real challenge. That’s why we launched, and can now report from, our Electrical Industry COVID-19 Market Sentiment Report. (available for $50 with 50% of proceeds to the Gary […]
COVID-19 has directly been impacting the electrical distribution industry for about two weeks and we’ve been aware of it, due to supply concerns coming from China for about six weeks. We’ve learned much such as the affect on the lighting […]
Last week was a “helluva” week for many with hourly reminders of a changing world due to an invisible enemy that is justifiably panicking all. It was a week we’ve all become too well acquainted with the words “coronavirus” and […]
