DistributED: The David White Exit Interview, Part 2
DistributED: The David White Exit Interview, Part 1
Business Blast: Being Everything To Everyone
Amid Probe, Car Company’s Plans Haven’t Panned Out
By HOLBROOK MOHR and MITCH WEISS TUNICA, Miss. (AP) — Four years ago, a startup car company announced with great fanfare big plans for the Mississippi Delta: Using money from…
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…
Positioning Your Distributorship as the #1 Expert Online
By Bridget McCrea The tED magazine/Baird research for the first quarter revealed that 70 percent of distributors and manufacturers are feeling the “margin pinch” brought on by online-only competitors that…
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…
Contractor to Distributors: Psst…a Little Help, Please?
By Bridget McCrea When Houston-based KenMor Electric adds 8,000 square feet of space to its 10,000-square-foot prefabrication warehouse later this year, the electrical contractor is going to need more help…
Amazon Testing its Own Delivery Service, Extends Sunday Del [...]
By Jack Keough Amazon is now testing a new delivery service using its own contracted trucks and drivers, which would, in effect, allow the giant e-retailer to control the entire…
Contractor Talks With tED Magazine About How He Makes Purch [...]
By Jim Williams tED Magazine is continuing its series of reports on AmazonSupply and the impact on our supply chain. Previously we have written about innovation and data. Today, writer…