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Look at Lighting: LEDs – Pricing No Longer an Excuse
Stan Walerczyk In the last year, LED performance and pricing have really improved. I have been presenting seminars comparing LEDs with high performance incumbent technologies since the 2011 Lightfair. With…
Does LED or Linear Fluorescent Have the Lowest Maintenance Costs?
Stan Walerczyk Although maintenance costs are mainly an end user concern, distributors and contractors, who provide low maintenance costs options to customers, will probably increase sales compared to their counterparts,…
NAW President Dirk Van Dongen Talks AmazonSupply Threat Wit [...]
By Jack Keough Dirk Van Dongen, the president of the powerful National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors and long-time expert in distribution, says the threat posed by Amazon into the industrial marketplace…
In This Town, Relationships Still Matter
By Bridget McCrea For now at least, Bruce Seilhammer has little interest in procuring electrical equipment and supplies from an online source like AmazonSupply. He values the long-term relationships that…
Going up Against the Web’s 800-Pound Gorilla: Part II
By Bridget McCrea In AmazonSupply Steps into Commercial Lighting, tED Magazine let readers know how Pittsburgh-based decorative lighting OEM sales rep agency Lighting Solution Development had posted a call for…
NEMA reiterates that lightbulb efficiency standards remain
Omnibus bill restricts DOE funding on enforcement ROSSLYN, Va.—The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), representing more than 95 percent of the U.S. lighting manufacturing industry, remains committed to and supportive…
Contractor’s Corner: Manufacturers’ Claims Real [...]
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…