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 […]
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 […]
David Gordon
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