This week’s AD North American Meeting was attended by over 1100 people from distributor members, manufacturers and service providers who came from throughout the US, Canada and Mexico. There was a buzz in Grapevine, TX at the Gaylord Texan as […]
Monday marked the day that Amazon closed on its Whole Foods acquisition and that Border States closed on its Kriz Davis acquisition. Both provided the acquirer strategic opportunities to increase their footprint and become pieces of a puzzle to become […]
Electrical industry tradeshows start in 4 weeks with AD’s North American Meeting, quickly followed by the IMARK Annual Meeting and the NAED Eastern, and not counting national meetings for national chains. And with the meetings comes talk regarding 2018 joint […]
Cree’s FY 2017 4th quarter results while disappointing, especially on the lighting side of the business, do, to some degree, correlate with feedback from other major lighting manufacturers that, at least for major companies, the market is “challenged”. It appears […]
Distributors traditionally fought for market share via relationship, service and price. The company with the best people, best service and competitive pricing that could provide their customers with access to credit typically won more business in a market. Since a […]
On Monday we shared manufacturer Q2 performance and rest of year outlook from Littelfuse, Encore Wire, Schneider Electric and Pentair. Today we’re going to review the quarterly reports from GE, Eaton, Emerson, ABB and Hubbell (with the focus solely on […]
Last week we reviewed the Q2 performance updates of publicly held electrical distributors as well as other national organizations that share their performance. This week we’ll review some of the Q2 manufacturer performance reports (and the list of companies is […]
Over the past couple of weeks a number of manufacturers and some distributors have shared second quarter performance updates. We’ve taken a look at many and will share pertinent, US-related information. First we’ll do distributors as AD, Graybar, Rexel, WESCO […]
Last week Acuity Brands announced their Q3 earnings and, while good, only share a portion of the lighting story. As a distributor, if you’re having a “good” year it’s because your lighting business is probably up double digits and your […]
In late May the 2017 Electrical Products Conference was held. This conference is an opportunity for publicly held companies in the electrical industry to present their “direction” to analysts so that analysts essentially “talk up” the company. Grainger, WESCO and […]
