Recently Wesco and Grainger shared their Q4 and end of year earnings calls with the investment community. Given that these two companies, collectively, represent about 7-10% of the US electrical market with both giving insights into other secular trends, the […]
The recent NEMRA 2023 conference represented the largest gathering of electrical manufacturers and their sales organization since the pandemic with 1916 people. The event, held at the Virgin Hotel in Las Vegas, was acclaimed by almost all (someone always has […]
February marks ETIM North America’s third anniversary as an association and we thought it pertinent to ask Mary Shaw, Executive Director of ETIM North America, to share an update with the industry. This is a condensed version of a document […]
The acquisition trend continues with CED and Galco announcing recent acquisitions. This brings the count to six electrical distributors acquired so far this year (NEDCO, Buckles Smith, Holt and ErieTec (which was acquired by Purvis)) on top of the 57 […]
Last week NEMRA, in preparation for its 2023 Annual Conference, NEMRA announced the new rep members of its Board of Directors as well as new manufacturer members of its NMG (NEMRA Manufacturer Group.) According to the press release: :The National […]
Okay, so I debated about writing this but I received a number of calls about the NAED Western from people who thought I was there. And calls from people who were there. All were asking for my observations from the […]
1862. That’s a huge number. It’s the current (as of January 18) registration for the NEMRA Annual Conference. 1862 people (probably more) will descend upon Las Vegas on January 30th and occupy the Virgin Hotel (and some spillover hotels) till […]
For the past ten years or so, many distributors have explored, and traveled, the eCommerce journey, traveling the path to bring new services to their customers and in the hopes of accelerated revenue. While the percent of sales coming from […]
Recently I wrote about channel loyalty and asked what mattered – loyalty or volume and defined loyalty based upon “earned loyalty” (living up to commitments.) We received a good number of calls and comments. Most shared that loyalty, as described […]
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 […]
David Gordon
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