The first quarter of 2021 was an “interesting” challenge for those selling lighting and, at the end of the quarter, industry performance was projected to meet industry predictions made during the fourth quarter of 2020. Channel Marketing Group’s 2021 Q1 […]
DISC, the electrical industry’s leading resource for electrical distribution market information, released its February DISC Flash report last week and it was a surprise … a significant acceleration is projected for the electrical industry. Channel Marketing Group, due to our […]
Last month we solicited the electrical / lighting channel’s input on the lighting market during the fourth quarter. And the market continues to rebound. After a strong Q3 as reported in our Q3 Pulse of Lighting Report, Q4 showed continued […]
2020 has been a rollercoaster of a year … Q1, if you can remember that far back, started strong for most distributors. Q2 was the rollercoaster plunge, which we documented in three of our COVID surveys (first, second and third […]
Distributor, manufacturer, manufacturer rep and lighting agent feedback in our 2020 Q3 Pulse of Lighting report show an improving lighting market. While the data had a disparity of -12% to flat versus Q3 2019, depending upon the audience, this was […]
As we get ready to turn the page on summer and companies begin to either complete, accelerate to complete or begin development of their 2021 planning cycle we thought it pertinent to check in with DISC for an electrical industry […]
Channel Marketing Group’s 2020 Q2 Pulse of Lighting Report (available for purchase for $19) projects that the lighting market, through electrical distribution, contracted by 20%. The survey, conducted the third week in June, received responses from 164 individuals who equally […]
The results of our fourth COVID-19 Market Sentiment study (click to purchase report) are in and the electrical distribution industry is back to work, and sales are improving and the electrical industry is moving ahead. Based upon feedback from over […]
Channel Marketing Group and DISC CORP released the results of our third COVID-19 Electrical Market Sentiment Report. With feedback from almost 500 electrical distributors, manufacturers and manufacturer representatives, it appears that the electrical market, nationally, shows signs of stabilizing. Being […]
COVID-19 continues to run rampant throughout the country. When we conducted our first Electrical Market Sentiment Report we went from zero to twenty-seven states under “shelter-in-place”. Our recently released second report, Mid-April COVID-19 Electrical Market Sentiment Report, which shares input […]
