Border States, the electrical distribution industry’s largest employee-owned distributor, re-entered the acquisition market and entered the Chicago market. This is their first foray into the Windy City and is the largest metropolitan area that the company has entered. According to […]
John Gross, known as Dr. Copper, authors a weekly newsletter providing significant information on many commodities. He frequently adds some commentary in introduction highlighting some trends. In this week’s issue he shared: “The last time we looked, WTI crude oil […]
Last month five-year-old Atlantic Coast Electric Supply held its first major customer training event combined with a trade show. At the same time, it recognized key suppliers. The company had over 325 customers turnout for the event and more than […]
March closed with a rash of acquisitions or perhaps many were ones that were going to occur at the end of the year. The following acquisitions occurred recently: Manufacturers NSi acquired Metallics Littelfuse acquired C&K Switches Southwire acquired Novinium Distributors […]
For the past few years, one of the biggest contributors to the commercial construction sectors growth has been the warehouse space segment. And the company predominately responsible for this has been Amazon. In fact, when Dodge Analytics did its 2022 […]
I spent 30 minutes recently on the phone with a good friend of mine in the industry. I listed several issues that are just somewhere between causing me concern and driving me crazy. I have preached about education for the […]
Last week IDEA held its eBiz conference which, with the support of NAED this year, was essentially billed as “the industry’s technology conference.” And while IDEA had record attendance with 207 registering, the challenge is that, according to one attendee […]
Last week Rexel announced a change in its North American leadership. Jeff Baker announced his retirement after 15 years of leading Rexel after it acquired Platt. This announcement follows one from earlier this year when Rexel announced a new Chief […]
We know, like most other distributors, that Sonepar USA had a “good” 2021. At least enough to enable it to carry out any planned acquisitions but, perhaps the recent news that it sold Vallen is a hint that they are […]
Last week’s NAED South Central, held in Phoenix, brought industry participants from the South and Central part of the country back together after a two year hiatus and was a resumption of the NAED regional schedule. 562 individuals registered for […]
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