Over the past few months there have been a number of economists and analysts who have shared their projections for 2019 regarding the overall economy. Inevitably, with the topics of tariffs, increased interest rates and no artificial fiscal stimulus (i.e […]
Earlier this month NAED started its meeting season with the NAED Eastern, which was held in Marco Island. Meeting attendance appeared to be somewhat “challenged” as the AD and IMARK annual meetings directly preceded the NAED meeting and Rockwell’s Automation […]
The last couple of years have seen a plethora of lighting innovations in a quest to “control” the ceiling and eventually a building, a network of buildings and then cities. This is the vision of smart cities … interconnected devices […]
Egret Consulting, an electrical industry recruitment leader, is searching for a switchgear quotations specialists for a client located in Iowa. The client is one of the largest independent electrical distributors in the country with locations throughout the US. Their business […]
Continuing our 2018 Q3 earnings report coverage, last week we covered a number of industrial distributors to get a sense of the industrial market as well as highlight competitors to electrical distributors and potential electrical sales leakage sources. Now let’s […]
The past month has been earning season for publicly held companies which provides an opportunity to benchmark the electrical industry, perhaps identify some competitive insights and, hopefully, identify trends looking forward. We’ll start with industrial distributors. In the distributor environment, […]
Conventional wisdom is that Amazon Business is not good for MRO and construction distributors.They are a technological behemoth that knows nothing about “our space” and are only successful because they can: throw money at the issue / opportunity have the […]
Amazon Business is talked about regularly within distribution industries in general and especially in the MRO space. Barely a meeting goes by with a manufacturer where the topic of “what should we do regarding Amazon Business” is not asked as […]
Earlier this week IMARK joined forces with two plumbing-oriented groups to expand the organization. The electrical industry’s first, largest (by member count), and oldest, member-owned and member-governed marketing group merged with two of the largest (by member count) plumbing groups […]
Fran Pollart, Managing Partner of Pollart Electrical Sales and incoming Chairman of NEMRA, now has a tough job. He’s charged with leading a search to replace Ken Hooper, President of NEMRA, who last week announced his retirement from NEMRA. NEMRA […]
