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Turtle & Hughes Leverages eCommerce for Healthcare Sales

David Gordon Posted On February 26, 2021

Turtle & Hughes, the 15th largest electrical distributor according to Electrical Wholesaling, is leveraging its eCommerce reach to solicit business in the healthcare market. According to a recent press release, the company has joined Premier, a healthcare purchasing organization as […]

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Home Depot Delivers for the Year … and For Pros

David Gordon Posted On February 23, 2021

Home Depot shared its fourth quarter earnings report today. Overall, they ended the year hitting it out of the park. While they obviously benefited from COVID and the “stay at home” and building boom, they also reaped the rewards of […]

Marketing / More Insights / People in the News / Training

Ken Cain Joins Channel Marketing Group

David Gordon Posted On February 23, 2021

Ken Cain, recently retired Vice President of Marketing for Capital Electric Supply (a Sonepar company) for the past sixteen years and previously Vice President of Marketing for Rexel and Vice President of Marketing for Branch Electric before it was purchased […]

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7 Industry Highlights

David Gordon Posted On February 18, 2021

The year has started at a torrid pace but there have been some highlights relating to acquisitions, sales models, strategic relationships, POS, ETIM and more. With COVID driving everyone to online planning it seems like there everyone is on a […]

Industry Outlook / Manufacturers / More Insights

Encore … Delivering the Copper

David Gordon Posted On February 18, 2021

The copper wire has been on a tear for the past year. On March 16, 2020 the price was $2.39 and on February 16 it was $3.83 (according to https://www.macrotrends.net). Lot’s of reasons for the increase and, as you’d suspect, […]

People in the News

McSpadden Joins Verozza Team

David Gordon Posted On February 18, 2021

VEROZZA, the latest supplier of high-performance architectural lighting products, is pleased to announce the appointment of Chad McSpadden, LC, as Vice President of Product Management. “Chad will be instrumental in bringing product management strategy and focus to VEROZZA,” says Eric […]

eCommerce / Industry Consolidation / Industry Outlook / More Insights

Rexel – steady Q4, positioned for growth

David Gordon Posted On February 16, 2021

February brings earnings month and Rexel is one of three electrical distributors that shares some information (the others being WESCO and Graybar). WESCO reported earlier with “eh” performance from its electrical group if the Anixter acquisition is excluded which was […]

Customer Service / Industry Outlook / More Insights / Profitability / Sales Channel

Striving for Perfect Relationships

Gene Biben Posted On February 15, 2021

After the recent NEMRA meeting and listening to the presentations from the marketing groups and the national chains, the question of “strategic relationships” came to mind. What is the most important factor in choosing relationships between a distributor, manufacturer and […]

Distributors / Industrial Market / Industry Outlook / More Insights

WESCO Steady in Q4

David Gordon Posted On February 11, 2021

WESCO reported 2020 Q4 earnings and, while from a Wall Street perspective the growth number was great (48%), from an industry perspective it’s misleading as it is comparing combined Anixter / WESCO vs WESCO from 2019. Q4, however, was comparable, […]

People in the News / Technology

Bromberg Joins IDEA as Business Development Manager

David Gordon Posted On February 11, 2021

IDEA welcomes Ilene Bromberg as Business Development Manager. Bromberg brings her extensive EDI experience to IDEA Exchange, IDEA’s EDI platform, Managed Services, and Tier 1 Value-Added Network (VAN). She will educate and onboard customers, prospects, and partners in targeted industries. […]