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A Journey to Reality with IIOT
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) is an opportunity, not a threat for electrical distributors. Here’s why. In the mid-90s, it was hard to pick up a newspaper, magazine or attend a distributor...
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Lighting’s Inventory Puzzles
How electrical distributors are dealing with inventory in lighting’s new world of accelerated obsolescence. The wondrous changes brought by LED lighting technology over the past few years — the...
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Water Everywhere
An unexpected flood tests Louisiana’s electrical industry. It was clear soon after the rain began to fall that this wasn’t just a normal storm.“It was one of those weird events no one saw coming,”...
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Pride of Ownership: ESOPs in electrical distribution
The employee-owned electrical distributors that thrive and grow very likely would thrive and grow under a different form of ownership, if they had the same executive team leading them. Given the...
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Print is Not Dead Yet
Here’s how to use the power of print in the digital age. Click it. Scan it. Swipe it. Close it. There’s no real reason to read it, because you tell yourself, “Oh, I can come back to this later.”...
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Warehouse Wizardry
A look at some ways new technologies could make working in the warehouse the most exciting and desirable job in your company. As technologies for handling materials begin to incorporate the promises...
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Stanion’s Value-Added Service Tracking Draws Praise from Provider
Tour de Force chose it as the best innovation using its CRM and business intelligence systems. Stanion Wholesale Electric, Pratt, KS, got some deserved recognition from a software provider for the way...
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Omni Cable has become an authorized distributor of Square D and Eaton molded-case circuit breakers. Wire and cable master distributor Omni Cable, headquartered in West Chester, PA, has signed...
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Utility Market 101
New energy sources are reshaping the electric utility market and starting to generate additional sales opportunities for utility distributors. The utility business is unlike any of an electrical...
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Sunny Side Up: The electrical industry's economic indicators look strong for...
It already looked like a pretty solid year for the electrical industry. Over the past few months, the outlook has improved.As we go to press, we are just a month shy of being half way through this...
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