As promised with Friday’s post regarding the challenging first half for Rexel and WESCO, as depicted in their Q2 reports, now we’ll touch on some recent manufacturer filings. Again, we’re being factual based upon their analyst call and their presentations: Acuity […]
Throughout July we’ve talked to a number of distributors and manufacturers regarding their first half. A couple of weeks ago we decided to launch a survey on ElectricalTrends to ask our readers how their first half went. We’ve received 75-80 responses […]
After the first half of the year, you may be ready to sit back and make paper airplanes. The market is confusing. It’s been a unique first half. Some are up, some are down, some are flat. No rhyme or […]
Last week came news that another independent distributor was sold to Sonepar. Eck Supply, a 20+ location distributor in southern VA, NC, SC, after selling their Rockwell location to EECO, sold the remainder of the company to Sonepar. Perhaps it […]
We’re at that time of year. The doldrums days of summer. The time when it gets hot and many people naturally become a little more “laisse faire.” When we use the excuse of mid year, summertime, the July 4th holiday, […]
That was the subject line of an email received this morning from a distributor. The body of email had a link: http://creesolutions.com/Solutions/NoHassles. Which started a thought process of: Is this really disintermediation when there are a number of lighting manufacturers who […]
NAED held its 2015 Annual Meeting in Chicago this past weekend. 748 people registered. There were 93 distribution entities and 105 manufacturer entities (inclusive of divisions for each) but there were only 46 manufacturer strategic one-on-one booths where distributors could […]
INFOR and Epicor are in the news again. Recently a notice came in that INFOR filed an offering aimed at raising $100 million, to probably fuel some acquisitions. Why is this of interest? INFOR will probably continue to reinvent themselves […]
Sometimes you have to stop and wonder why you do the same things over and over, expecting different results when it comes to the way you handle inventory. Most distributors have a dollar figure in their head that they don’t […]
It was always said that the South Central regional should be in a warm weather location. Unfortunately, while warmer than Chicago, it was colder than what Floridians are used to. This must have been the coldest South-Central I’ve attended … […]
