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Thought we’d start off the week with a little news from a variety of distributors and manufacturers in the industry, and with Election Day tomorrow, a piece of healthcare news that came from a distributor. Getting into it, Was with […]
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 […]
As an industry we lament the fact that we rarely higher people from outside the industry let alone are afraid to “grow our own” people in fear that someone else will hire them. One company that is not afraid to […]
Am attending a distributor meeting and an attendee asked a speaker “where do you find sales staff other than through networking?” (yes, some people are looking to grow their business.)The question came from a lighting / electrical distributor. The follow-up […]
We wanted to share our respects on an industry stalwart and leader.As reported in last week’s issue of Electrical Wholesaling, Joe Frangipane, known to many as the VP Supplier Relations for IMARK, and before that a leader at WIED and […]
As we celebrate our 233rd birthday this weekend we wanted to wish you a wonderful weekend with family and loved ones. The Declaration of Independence was conceived based upon the concept that people had the “right” to pursue “life, liberty […]
A follow-up to last week’s posting on China’s Next Growth Strategy. According to yesterday’s Wall Street Journal entitled “Unionizing Fight Focuses on 3 States” , the Employee Free Choice Act may come down to three senators … Arlen Specter of […]
A recent article in Home Channel News gave us thought to “Do distributors, and for that matter manufacturers, have ethics policies for their purchasing departments and for their salespeople?” The reason for the question can be found in this HCN […]
Many industry veterans remember Jack Briody. Jack was with Philips until 1991, had a brief stint at MagneTek (now Universal Lighting Technologies), and finished his career at Advance Transformer in 2001. He was the original “energy efficiency” leader and was […]
The biggest challenge for many companies is quality personnel…how to recruit them, train them and retain them. Talent is a company’s greatest asset. As the effort expended in HR grows, combined with continued regulatory and administrative issues, HR departments will […]
