One of the areas where we hear companies are continuously challenged is recruiting quality people that have some experience with the electrical industry and targeted product categories. It’s usually not too difficult to find people with specific skill sets. The […]
Respondents to our Q3 Pulse of Lighting survey forecasted a slowdown in the lighting market. Acuity foreshadowed similar in its last quarterly earnings report. Guess what? Both were right. 2022 Q4 Pulse of Lighting Report Highlights from our recently released […]
Over the holidays I was contemplating writing a “10 Trends” type of article. You know, the type where a consultant or journalist theorizes what will occur in the coming year and says “you should do ‘x’ to generate growth. And […]
As I get ready to close out 2022 there is something I’ve been meaning to get to this month but continuously postponed due to client travel, family travel, keeping up with acquisition news, and client projects that needed to be […]
The markets up, the markets down. You listen to economists and you hear about recession and will the Fed raise rates or hold. Large technology firms are laying people off by the thousands but electrical distributors and manufacturers cannot find […]
On a day that the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased over 1200 points on the news that the CPI declined to 7.7% over the past 12 months, the 30-year mortgage fell below 7% and the 10 year treasury fell to […]
While there may be only eight days left to the national mid-term elections, there are only 60 days remaining to determine who will own a number of electrical distributors. While Rexel initiated the second half of the year acquisition run […]
Manufacturers, distributors, and reps are all in the 2023 planning phase, all trying to read the tea leaves for a 2023 forecast. Concurrently some are experiencing a slowdown, some are sensing a slowdown and others are questioning if a slowdown […]
Earlier this week Acuity shared their most recently quarterly results. While the company, overall, performed well, for the electrical / lighting distribution segment, which Acuity calls its “Independent Sales Agents”, the company outperformed our Q3 Pulse of Lighting survey results […]
Manufacturers and distributors talk about “partnership” and “supporting” each other. Turtle & Hughes has taken it the next level by investing in an up and coming manufacturer, Cadenza Innovation. Who is Cadenza? Founded in 2012 by lithium-ion battery experts with […]
