We’re at the mid-year and we’re hearing a wide array of distributor and manufacturer performance. Industry forecasters state the market should be around 6% which begs the question, are you above the industry forecast and growing or are you letting […]
Grainger shared its 2018 Q2 performance earlier this week and, given their industrial MRO focus, highlighted continued strength in this customer segment. And while they are not focused in the electrical space, they are about a $1B electrical player as […]
Looking back over last quarter there were a number of acquisitions in the electrical / lighting industry. Reasons for the deals can be based upon: A desire for accelerated growth Expansion into geographic markets Desire to leverage infrastructure and/or support […]
Last week Acuity released its latest quarterly report (covering Q2 2018 time period.) At the headline number the business met the feedback we received from distributors in our Q2 Pulse of Lighting study (or here to purchase the report for $19) and […]
Last week ABB announced the completion of its acquisition of GE Industrial Solutions. The division is now part of ABB Electrification and is called ABB EPIS (Electrification Products – Industrial Solutions). The $2.6 billion deal was announced last September and […]
Irby, one of the largest electrical distribution companies in the US, with nearly $1 Billion in annual sales and over 900 employees across 60+ branches in 25 states is hiring in Texarkana, TX. Irby is part of the Sonepar family […]
NAED held its 2018 Women in Industry (WII) conference the last week in June and it was one of the most talked about conference that I have heard about in a while. I received feedback from a number of clients […]
Earlier this year we launched our quarterly Pulse of Lighting study in conjunction with William Blair, a leading investment analyst firm. The Q1 report may have surprised some of the larger lighting companies with feedback from distributors. Now we have […]
Earlier this year we launched our quarterly Pulse of Lighting study in conjunction with William Blair, a leading investment analyst firm. The Q1 report may have surprised some of the larger lighting companies with feedback from distributors. Now we have […]
Recently there have been a number of distributors who have launched upgraded websites with eCommerce capabilities. Reportedly launch times range from 4 to 28 months … and maybe more (Kirby Risk, State Electric, Independent Electric, Fairmont Supply, Turtle & Hughes, […]
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