DistributED: The David White Exit Interview, Part 2
DistributED: The David White Exit Interview, Part 1
Business Blast: Being Everything To Everyone
Small Contractor Describes the Perfect Distributor
By Jim Williams Contractor’s Corner decided to once again ask a contractor to describe what an ideal distributor would be like for them. This time we approached Jeff Klimek, owner…
Lighting Controls, Revisited
Stan Walerczyk I was fortunate enough to get some detailed feedback regarding my controls column, Lighting and the Internet of Things. I look forward to even more feedback in the…
Retaining Top Talent, Part I
By Bridget McCrea Top-tier employees are getting harder and harder to come by these days thanks to a recovering economy and companies’ growing need for skilled workers. The fact that…
Retaining Top Talent: Overhaul Your Retention Programs
By Bridget McCrea In Part I of this series, we looked at how difficult it can be to hang onto top-tier employees in today’s recovering economic conditions and improving job…
Predicting the Price of Copper Is A Coin Flip
By Jim Williams We don’t want to sound like a broken record, but predicting the price of copper depends on where you look. More importantly, how far into the future…
The New Work Horse Lamp
By Stan Walerczyk For well over a decade my favorite workhorse lamp has been a 3100 lumen 80 CRI 32W fluorescent F32T8, but now LED lightbars, LED troffer kits or…
Contractor Talks About What Makes The Ultimate Distributor
By Jim Williams For this edition of Contractor’s Corner we put Sean Spence, Sr. Purchaser for Northern Electric, Inc. on the hot seat. We asked him what does the perfect…