Summertime is over. 3 1/2 months till the end of the year. The race is on to finish strong while beginning to plan for 2026! Tariff decisions were essentially made (maybe!) but, as an industry, everyone adjusts. The construction market, […]
While AI burst into the mainstream relatively recently, “techies” have commented that it has been around for a while. As distributors have found out, seemingly every technology solicitation call is from an AI company. There is Chat, Perplexity, Grok, Claude, […]
The North American Engineering and Construction Outlook published by FMI, in March warned of tough sledding ahead. This has indeed been borne out in the recently published Third Quarter Outlook. The forecast is for 2026-2029. Overall, the residential sector is […]
The electrical acquisition market has been relatively quiet the first half of 2025 with only 11 deals reported / known, and only two of them by a national chain. Channel Marketing Group tracks electrical distribution acquisitions and, since 2020, there […]
At the end of June, we took a look at some of the opportunities in the residential market. We remain in a state of uncertainty. Whichever anecdote you prefer – seasonal fog and structural slog, or one foot out of […]
As a continuation in the series focusing on top industries and products for electrical distributors (March looked at the manufacturing industry), this analysis takes a look at the US infrastructure and opportunities for distributors and manufacturers. It is certainly not […]
Last week there was much lighting news as Channel Marketing Group / ElectricalTrends released the William Blair sponsored Q2 Pulse of Lighting Report Linda Longo shared insights on the residential lighting market based upon her visit to Lightovation on US […]
The residential market represents 8-12%, typically, of the electrical distribution market, or about 15-20% of the overall contractor market. For some distributors it is much more based upon locale, however, typically this is smaller distributors. And for those in lighting, […]
Looking back at the first half of the year, it has been challenging – weather, on again / off again tariffs, war (Ukraine and Middle East), interest rates, and more – have led to a challenging first half for many. […]
Electrical buyer, both contractor and industrial, interest in ordering electronically (eCommerce) has come a long way in 8 short years. Eight years ago, every industry association conference had non-industry consultants espousing that Amazon Supply (now Amazon Business) ending the role […]
