The industry is losing a friend in a couple of weeks. Joe Huffman, whom many knew as the VP Supplier Relations for CED and also known by many distributors when he was VP Sales for Leviton, announced last week that, […]
The price of copper and aluminum, over the years, continues to rise and most feel that it is sustainable given the central role that, especially copper, plays in the economy. Everything from electricity transmission to data center, from EVs and […]
Scott Sinning from MarginMax Partners has been sharing ideas to help electrical distributors improve their profitability this year with his articles on plugging leaks, using SPAs, and more. Now he’s offering a webinar on SPAs next week. The Cost of […]
Parspec continues to grow and launch new, innovative, tools Recently it was a sales management platform to support lighting agents and now it’s an AI-native project management platform developed with leading electrical distributors to help electrical distributors advance their businesses […]
MaxLite continues to strengthen its field sales management team with the addition of Jason Samuelian. According to its press release: “MaxLite is pleased to announce the appointment of Jason Samuelian as Vice President of Sales, C&I West Region, and Managing […]
At the end of the year, Neil Ashe, CEO of Acuity, described the 4th quarter (their first quarter) lighting business as “tepid”, and our 2025 Q4 Pulse of Lighting report affirmed, and shared a 2026 Outlook If the definition of […]
Recently AD held its IESD networking meeting in Denver. Lots of distributor attendees and, while I wasn’t there, after attending well over 125 NAED and marketing group meetings, I’m confident that I how the opening reception went. In fact, you […]
Jupiter is not only the largest planet, but also a massive data center project in New Mexico. Data centers. They are powering the construction industry with their deliverables – AI and storing / managing data for businesses and consumers – […]
Thinking about AI is a step towards thinking about innovation and growth of a business. Investing in the technology infrastructure of a company is necessary, and also scary. For this reason, many owners prefer to be conservative and settle for […]
I have interviewed various manufacturer representatives and how they assess their manufacturers and the state of manufacturer / rep relationships. Let me preface this by saying, all also shared that they have some manufacturers that they have great relationships with […]
David Gordon
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