NAED Releases Executive Summary and Executive Brief of Elec [...]
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LED Lighting: Easy to Sell, Difficult to Source & Program
By Bridget McCrea As the challenges associated with buying and installing state-of-the-art LED lighting mount, contractor frustration increases and distributors pitch in to help. Business has been pretty brisk this…
Distributors, It’s Time to Step Up Your Lighting Game
By Bridget McCrea When David Witz thinks about one of his biggest ongoing challenges—making sure lighting fixtures are delivered in the right quantity and to the right place at the…
Is Your Distributorship an Innovation Machine?
By Bridget McCrea If innovation has no end point, and if it’s not about coming up with the latest “cool” product, why isn’t your electrical distributorship running like a well-oiled…
PoE: Power Over Ethernet or Philips Over Everyone Else?
By Chris Brown Or should it be BoE… “Beginning of End” for some lighting distributors? Illumigeddon got real last month with the announcement of an alliance between Philips and Cisco…
Top 20 Stories of 2015: #13 Eaton Shifts Cooper Brand to Ea [...]
Every weekday in December, tED magazine is counting down the Top 20 Stories of 2015. Below, the #13 most-viewed story of the year, originally published on June 26, 2015. …
Top 20 Stories of 2015: #17 First Ever LED Lit Super Bowl
Every weekday in December, tED magazine is counting down the Top 20 Stories of 2015. Below, the #17 most-viewed story of the year, originally published on January 30, 2015. …
Disintermediation Strategy: A Fact Of Our New Lighting Life
By Chris Brown The recent discussions regarding disintermediation should be stirring conversation on how distribution deals with a fact of our new lighting life: Some manufacturers will choose to (or…