Ready for a new entrant in the wire business? Meet Nexans. Nexans, worldwide a leader in the wire and cable industry and a name mentioned in the US but a niche player, is entering the market via the acquisition of […]
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MaxLite is a winner again. This time it’s for their AE Switch Remote Control Area Light, which was the EC&M Product of the Year Outdoor Category Winner. MaxLite, a leader in energy-efficient lighting solutions since 1993, announced that its AE […]
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Rexel’s North American group was again the star performer for the company according to their 2026 Q1 earnings call. While the overall business was up only 3.4%, and all regions showed positive growth for the first time in 11 quarters, […]
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Lighting … A Smaller Segment of LSI LSI Industries, the parent of LSI Lighting and Atlas Lighting, reported 3Q fiscal year 2026 earnings on April 23. As one of the few remaining publicly traded lighting manufacturers that reports, although not […]
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As a distributor, you heard about AI at every conference. Your IT department, or provider, is talking about AI and “we could do this, we could do that.” You hear about internal “skunk works” projects that are occurring within your […]
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Following its acquisition of the permanent lighting portion of Topaz from Southwire, Halco Lighting has been reviewing its rep network and making, in many cases, the hard decision of which independent manufacturer representative to go to market within each territory. […]
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Signify’s Genlyte Solutions and AD’s Independent Electric Supply Division (IESD) both announced new president’s last week. Christy Tilton New President at Genlyte, Kevin Poyck to Retire According to Signify’s press release: “Kevin Poyck, President, Genlyte, Color Kinetics (CK) and Entertainment […]
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It’s a little unusual when two name-brand companies in our industry come together and openly collaborate on an offering, using the strengths of both companies. This isn’t to say that companies don’t sell components to each other, as that is […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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