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By Stan Walercyzk In lighting, it can be relatively easy for distributors and contractors to do a reality check on manufacturers’ claims. Some manufacturers provide very credible claims on certain…
AmazonSupply Steps into Commercial Lighting
By Bridget McCrea In February, Pittsburgh-based decorative lighting OEM sales rep agency Lighting Solution Development, posted a call for new lighting vendors on AmazonSupply’s behalf. In AmazonSupply Seeking Commercial Lighting…
HD Supply to Dispose of its Litemor Lighting Group
HD Supply says it will dispose of its Litemor Lighting Group, which is the largest commercial electrical distributor in Canada with ten branches throughout Canada and more than $80 million…
Contractor’s Corner: Do Rebate Providers Know Best?
By Stan Walercyzk Do you feel that some organizations are ‘Ivory Tower’ or ‘Orwellian Big Brother’ when they come over knowing better than you, which products should qualify for rebates…
LEDs Taking Big Share of Lighting Market
By Jack Keough Sales of LEDs are now making up a larger percentage of many electrical manufacturers’ total lighting sales and a new Department of Energy report says that adoption…
The Value-Added Distributor Series: Reversing the Trend
By Bridget McCrea From the way Rick Freebery sees it, the act of charging fees for value-added services for customers that are used to getting such add-ons for “free”…
Contractor’s Corner: LEDs and Retrofits
By Stan Walerczyk With LED products, the lighting retrofit industry has to change. First of all, it is important not to buy and install earlier version LED products. Often the…