The 2021 Sapphire Awards, one of the lighting industry’s top honors, announced that eLumigen was a Sapphire Award Finalist in the “Industrial SSL Luminaire Design” category, for their High CRI Class 1, Division 2 (C1D2) LED Fixture. The company is […]
With the economy strong it’s important to look forward to identify how to maintain your momentum. This requires looking at “niche” markets but, remember, your niche can be someone else’s mainstay. Think OEM (original equipment manufacturer). One such area is […]
Espen Technology announced a major performance improvement for its LED Linear Module Retrofit Kit family, known as VersaLinearTM. The linear module kits come in 2’, 3’, and 4’ lengths, suitable to replace both T5 & T8 lamps. There are several […]
Wildcat Electric Supply, a 53-year-old, two location distributor based in Houston, is the latest independent electrical distributor to sell. The second-generation distributor who served the contractor and industrial market in Houston and San Marcos, TX, sold to CED. Knowing Keith […]
According to statistics recently compiled by Emergen Research, the global LiFi market reached an estimated US $213.5 Million in 2020 and is expected to register a CAGR of 70.1% due to increasing demand for high-speed networks worldwide. That said, Light […]
This summer EiKO is launching its Z10 product offering. I know, what is Z10 other than the sports cars some of us remember (’69 Z10 Camaro or a 2009 BMW Z10, but let’s go with an American muscle car!)? So, […]
The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has named chemistry and petroleum industry veteran Debra Phillips as its next President and CEO. Kevin Cosgriff, who has held those positions for the past seven years, will retire in December. During his tenure […]
The proposed $1.2 trillion physical infrastructure bill, which the Senate passed and is awaiting House action, should contain many expanded opportunities, some of which will be niche markets, for electrical distributors. Being able to take advantage of it, proactively, will […]
The end of June brought three distribution acquisitions and last month brought four more, signaling that there will be a busy second half of the year. July saw: Sonepar acquire Springfield Electric, a $200M+ distributor Teche Electric complete its acquisition […]
The past few weeks have been Q2 earnings reports from publicly held distributors. And records should be expected for Q2 since it is being compared to Q2 2020 … the height of COVID from a business disruption viewpoint. (the comparables […]
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