Last week Graybar announced that their 2022 revenues exceeded $10 billion for the first time. And after the market growth of 20% annually for the past few years powered by COVID-driven supply chain issues, price increases and market dynamics and […]
Last week’s NAED South Central brought an end to the trilogy of NAED regional conferences this year (here’s feedback from the NAED Eastern and the NAED Western.) While there was much information gathered from one-on-one meetings with manufacturers, distributors and […]
Bill Hammond is getting a promotion in the near future! According to an article in the Canadian Electrical Wholesaler: “Recently, Hammond Power Solutions Inc. announced the transition plan for Chairman and CEO, Bill Hammond, to move into the Executive Chairman […]
It’s been a number of years since Forrester Research and Gartner foreshadowed the demise of electrical distributors and forecasted that the business would 1) go online and 2) be taken over by Amazon and national chains. The part they missed […]
Each element of the channel is talking about information sharing and digitizing of processes. Distributors seek “better” and “more” product content to power their websites, manufacturers and distributors talk about the need for “data” to enable them to do “analytics”, […]
According to a press release from Current Lighting, “Current™, a leading commercial and industrial (“C&I”) lighting and controls company, has appointed William (“Bill”) Tolley as its Interim CEO, effective today. Departing CEO Manish Bhandari was instrumental in leading the company […]
Conexiom is helping electrical distributors, and now electrical manufacturers, scale their businesses by automating the ordering process, enabling repetitive tasks (data entry) to become digitized enabling staff to manage more and/or better serve internal and external customers. It’s website highlights […]
AD launched an interesting, and perhaps valuable, initiative that, on the face of it, would appear to target a core element of an association’s value proposition … training. And, it is interesting given that, presumably, a significant percentage of leading […]
SPAs, or special pricing agreements, have been generating much attention in the industry in the past year. A number of technology companies have descended upon the electrical industry to “enhance / improve” the SPA management process, all in the name […]
SPAN revolutionized the 100-year-old electrical panel, to accelerate electrification of the home. The 2nd generation SPAN Smart Panel harnesses enhanced technology for metering, monitoring, and control. An expanded product suite of intelligent, integrated solutions radically lowers the cost and complexity of […]
David Gordon
Channel Marketing Group
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