“Placing Your Content in Front of Contractors” is the name of a webinar being conducted by Trimble and featuring Panduit. (If you did not attend the webinar and want to view it, click here.) Last week I saw an ad […]
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Southwest Agency Merger – Hossley and L&PS
Hossley Lighting Associates, led by Al Near, and Lighting & Power Solutions, led by Don Henderson, agreed to merge last week, forming a powerhouse agency serving the Southwest / Gulf Coast area. The two agencies, with a number of lighting […]
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Madison Joins Southwire Family
Southwire, known for their wire and cable offering, has been on the expansion trail the past few years broadening its offering into tools, material handling (Maxis Tools) and a couple of years ago Garvin Industries, which was a head scratcher […]
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Different Models Part 2: Grainger 2020 Q2
Grainger’s 2020 Q2 differed significantly from Rexel. It’s lessons focus on diversification, sourcing flexibility as a sales tool, focusing on serving selected markets in a crisis. From it’s Q2 earnings call and presentation with a focus on what could be […]
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It’s 2020 Q2 earnings season and recent reports from Rexel and Grainger provide an opportunity to consider two drastically different models. Rexel is a traditional electrical distributor challenged with a consistent business model and painstakingly slowly trying to evolve to […]
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Schaedler YESCO, one of Pennsylvania’s leading independent distributors and perennially on Pennsylvania’s “Best Place to Work” list last week announced that it acquired two branches from Rexel. The locations are in Pittston, PA (northeastern Pennsylvania) and Johnson City, NY (just […]
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Feedback from a number of people within the channel is that ABB seems to be an enigma, especially its ABB ELIP group, Electrification Installation Products Business (the “old” Thomas & Betts brand.) The GE Industrial Solutions group is now part […]
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Ted Konnerth, an electrical industry veteran known for his tenure at Cooper Lighting (many many moons ago!) and for the past 20 years for Egret Consulting is now expanding his efforts to support manfuacturers, disributors and others in the area […]
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Last week ETIM North America shared a couple of press releases that had some important implications that highlight traction in development of a product classification system to support and sustain the industry as well as expanded support. Jon Duffie, Siemens’ […]
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In an industry awash with data, the issue of POS (point of sale) information being shared to ensure independent manufacturer representatives are compensated for their efforts continues to be an issue. And with COVID significantly impacting industry revenues for many, […]
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