DistributED: The David White Exit Interview, Part 2
DistributED: The David White Exit Interview, Part 1
Business Blast: Being Everything To Everyone
10 More Ways to Retain Your Top Employees
By Bridget McCrea Looking for more tips on how to retain your distributorship’s top talent? Human resources outsourcing and business solutions firm Insperity offers these 10 quick tips for keeping…
Google Shopping for Suppliers Closes Down
After operating for less than 18 months, Google has pulled the plug on its Google Shopping for Suppliers, quietly closing down its operations last month. In an announcement on its…
Electrical Distributor Loses Non-Compete Suit
In an earlier version of this story, it was incorrectly reported that Wholesale Electric Co. of Houston was involved in a suit regarding a non-compete clause. The suit had had…
Philips to Combine Lighting Units Into Stand-Alone Company
By Jack Keough Philips, the huge Dutch industrial giant, says that it intends to combine its LED and automotive lighting businesses into a new stand-alone company. Philips says that it…
Copper: Another Week, Another Gain – How Long Will It Continue?
By Jim Williams Copper started the week out on a positive note Monday, marking the second straight month of gains on tight supply and hopes of solid demand from China…
The Copper Rollercoaster – What A Ride We’ve Been On [...]
By Jim Williams Depending on what you read, and what day you read it, the future of copper is either extremely bleak, or it is about to skyrocket like something…
LED Lightbars Versus LED Troffer Kits
In addition to high performance fluorescent, LED lightbars and LED troffer kits are two very good retrofit solutions. If anybody wants me to write about LED T8s, I will, but…