At last month’s AD meeting (our observations here) Bill Weisberg announced the launch of the AD Disaster Relief Foundation. While the timing was serendipitous given the recent tragedies in Houston, Florida, the Virgin Islands, the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, Mexico and […]
At this week’s Rockwell Automation TechLED Rockwell announced a new partnership with Manpower to train (“upskill”) 1,000 veterans per year. The new initiative, reported by Control magazine, is designed to help address the expected shortage in skilled automation staff that […]
You’ve heard the phrase “what goes on in Vegas stays in Vegas”. Well, what goes on at an NAED South-Central doesn’t stay in Tampa when it can benefit children, especially children with cancer, and the St. Baldrick’s Foundation .. and […]
Last week we shared insights from the NEMRA Annual Meeting and mentioned NEMRA’s new initiative / platform called Power Pact which is conceived, based upon research, to take manufacturer / rep relations to partnerships with a goal of developing a […]
For some reason when it comes to December manufacturers seem to make a flurry of moves with a number being of the acquisitive type. Don’t know why, but… And there are other manufacturer “happenings” that we’ve heard of. So, as […]
For the past 18 months NEMRA has been working with its NMG (NEMRA Manufacturer Group) to better understand the impact of the lack of industry standards to report point of sale (POS) and point of transfer (POT) between distributors and […]
Earlier this week there was a press release announcing that a small, innovative and progressive LED lighting company, START Lighting, had recently joined NEMRA. Now normally a small manufacturer joining an association isn’t too noteworthy, and, quite frankly, it isn’t, […]
ElectricalTrends would like to welcome Epicor as our latest advertiser. Epicor, as many in the electrical industry knows, is a prominent ERP system in the electrical industry. In fact, according to Electrical Wholesaling, more than 70 of the Top 200 […]
It was 9 years ago today that Allen Ray from Allen Ray Associates and David Gordon from Channel Marketing Group decided to collaborate and launch ElectricalTrends as a resource for the electrical distribution industry. The goal of ElectricalTrends has been […]
