Need 4″ square boxes for a metal studs? Want to install them quickly and be able to ensure the necessary alignment? Topaz has your customers covered. Topaz continues to expand their line of steel boxes with the addition of 4” […]
Inventory and people are a distributors largest investment. Finding a way to improve the productivity of both is key to improved sales and net profitability. With rising inventory valuations due to commodity price increases and recognizing that the pandemic may […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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