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Cree’s FY 2017 4th quarter results while disappointing, especially on the lighting side of the business, do, to some degree, correlate with feedback from other major lighting manufacturers that, at least for major companies, the market is “challenged”. It appears […]
Last week Acuity Brands announced their Q3 earnings and, while good, only share a portion of the lighting story. As a distributor, if you’re having a “good” year it’s because your lighting business is probably up double digits and your […]
It appears that the company that Thomas Edison founded, GE, will shortly be out of the electrical industry … or mostly. “Phase three” of the exit, as reported by the Edison Report via a copy of an internal letter, was […]
Since the beginning of the year, Wendell Strong from Innovative Lighting has penned an exclusive series for ElectricalTrends titled ““Insights into the World of PoE Lighting Technology.” Wendell has been in the lighting industry for “many” years and has used […]
Over the past week we’ve spoken to a number of distributors, reps and manufacturers who attended LightFair. From listening to all it appears that LightFair, which euphemistically was called LEDFair a few years ago by many when LEDs first started […]
The continued focus on energy efficiency powered by LEDs has fueled growth in the lighting market. For many distributors lighting now represents 30-40% of sales. And the lighting controls market has grown. For the past few years we’ve reviewed Acuity’s […]
For a number of years Rexel USA has had “challenges” and many distributors considered Rexel as perhaps their greatest growth opportunity. The company contracted, quality people left / were recruited away, suppliers commented on the company’s ability to execute and […]
Last month we introduced a three part series from Wendell Strong entitled “Insights into the World of PoE Lighting Technology.” His first part, titled “In the Beginning there was Light(ing).” This month he continues the series with where LED is […]
Acuity achieved a 10% organic sales growth last quarter while the Juno acquisition generated another 9%. Both become key metrics for distributors to benchmark themselves. Additionally, 66% of Acuity’s fixture business is now LEDs, another benchmark metric for distributors. Acuity’s […]
Happy New Year. And with a new year comes 2017 predictions. This year, at least at this time, there appears to be some economic optimism in the air. Whether it’s sustainable given that the economic and regulatory reforms that are […]
