The NAED meeting season began in full force last week with the NAED Eastern Regional Conference. While a few national chains, AD and IMARK previously held their meetings, the NAED Eastern was the first broad-based meeting for many manufacturers. Overall […]
After 30+ years working for lighting manufacturers, Kevin Grayson joins Channel Marketing Group as Vice President with a focus on supporting companies in the lighting industry as well as providing sales management coaching. Many in the industry know Kevin from […]
G&G Industrial Lighting is proud to announce that Ben Jamison has joined the team as Director of Business Development. Jamison will take the reins as the company’s head sales strategist, leading the sales team while defining and implementing methods to […]
Each year many in the construction industry eagerly await the Dodge Construction Outlook. For 2020 Dodge Data & Analytics is forecasting a $776 billion construction market. Which sounds great, except it represents a 4% decline versus 2019’s projected activity of […]
WESCO was the final national distributor to report Q3 earnings this week. Overall they performed well and, surprisingly, the tone of this quarterly called seemed to be more “open” and a little more transparent. From their call and presentation: “Record […]
Anixter and Graybar reported their Q3 results this week and it appears that, while the market is slowing, the construction market continues to outperform the industrial business. Graybar outperforms the publicly traded national companies. Graybar Graybar is always a “short” […]
In an age of analytics and process automation, two industry-focused companies have recently come together to enhance services for the industry … SPA (Strategic Pricing Associates) and Jigsaw Systems. SPA historically has been focused on improving distributor profitability through improved […]
We’re in the midst of meeting and planning season and with it comes the perennial question of “what’s the outlook for 2020?” While no one has a crystal ball, it’s safe to say that many think their ball is “cloudy” […]
Grainger’s Q3 2019 report affirmed a slowdown in the US industrial / institutional MRO market, which Grainger outperformed. The performance was driven through sales deployment, an increase in product assortment which generates increased sales of wallet and effective marketing. In […]
Yesterday ABB shared its Q3 results. Being such a large and diverse company, it is difficult to ascertain much to provide electrical industry insights other than an affirmation of a slowdown in the US electrical industry and particularly in the […]
