The changes continue! At last month’s NEMRA conference, manufacturers emphasized selling rather than the supply chain issues of the past few years as they pursue growth in 2023. For many, the supply chain has dramatically improved. From conversations with manufacturers, […]
At the recent NEMRA Annual Conference I was introduced to a potential service to the industry called mETaL that offers a cloud-based service that could “connect” disparate systems between reps and manufacturers. The goal is to improve communications and data […]
The addition of Republic Companies and Teche Electric makes it 9 distributor deals announced during Q1! At the NAED South Central we heard of two distributor deals. One related to CED acquiring the Rockwell APR (we’re calling this deal #7), […]
ChatGPT is all the rage lately. People are swarming to it, asking questions, conceiving new capabilities and then there is the “fear” of jobs that will be replaced, papers submitted for academic (and business) credit that are AI driven and […]
Coburn Supply, a multi-industry distributor headquartered in Texas serving the electrical, plumbing, HVAC and waterwork segments in eastern Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee through over 60 locations recently announced its second acquisition of the year, this time in the […]
Last week’s NAED South Central brought an end to the trilogy of NAED regional conferences this year (here’s feedback from the NAED Eastern and the NAED Western.) While there was much information gathered from one-on-one meetings with manufacturers, distributors and […]
It’s been a number of years since Forrester Research and Gartner foreshadowed the demise of electrical distributors and forecasted that the business would 1) go online and 2) be taken over by Amazon and national chains. The part they missed […]
Each element of the channel is talking about information sharing and digitizing of processes. Distributors seek “better” and “more” product content to power their websites, manufacturers and distributors talk about the need for “data” to enable them to do “analytics”, […]
AD launched an interesting, and perhaps valuable, initiative that, on the face of it, would appear to target a core element of an association’s value proposition … training. And, it is interesting given that, presumably, a significant percentage of leading […]
SPAs, or special pricing agreements, have been generating much attention in the industry in the past year. A number of technology companies have descended upon the electrical industry to “enhance / improve” the SPA management process, all in the name […]
David Gordon
Channel Marketing Group
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