Our annual 2010-11 Contractor Insight Research report yielded a number of changing survival tactics and purchasing patterns for electrical contractors. With hard survey results in hand there were over 800 conversations with 309 electrical contracting firms. It may seem like […]
And their concern is essentially that they expect 2011 to be comparable to be 2010. As many in the industry know, those in the industrial space or focused in energy efficiency were relatively more successful in 2010 than commercially-oriented or […]
As many know, the NAED Eastern was held last week in Orlando, at the Omni Championsgate. There were 65 distributor entities registered (excluding Bell and Hunzicker – which are on NAED’s BOD – and IESC (parent of Rexel / Gexpro) […]
So have you identified where your demand is at? It’s always interesting to hear Federal Reserve presidents speak about the economy. Most everyone has a hard time understanding what they are saying…much less what they are going to do. But […]
2011 is around the corner and the numbers are starting to fly. Based upon what we’ve seen, from early survey results from our 2011 Distributor Channel Challenges survey to the RW Baird Industrial Distribution 3Q Survey (done in conjunction with […]
Okay, less than 75 days left till the end of the year. Planning for 2011 is well underway in many companies, or quickly will be. A-D and IMARK members have already held their annual meetings, enabling them to start next […]
Change is in the air at USESI, the sister company to CED. While USESI does not report to CED, many presume that there is a connection between the two companies, other than ownership by Keith Colburn. It appears that as […]
Over the past 1 1/2 to 2 years we’ve had a number of electrical manufacturers and distributors ask us why we think that there have hasn’t been much consolidation during the “great recession” that supposedly we have come out of. […]
We apologize for not having written in the past week and a half, however, client travel sometimes creates timing issues (and you probably don’t want me writing real late at night!) But was listening to CNBC this afternoon. They had […]
While we know the construction market is down, here’s more confirmation that distributors that are heavily skewed to construction markets are having a hard time. The last two days have reinforced the residential market troubles. New Housing starts down 12.4% […]
