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First Ever LED Lit Super Bowl

By Jack Keough For the first time in its history, the Super Bowl Feb. 1 will be played under LED lighting at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. …

Creating a Customer-Centric Online Selling Strategy

One thing we all learned from the “Testing Out the AmazonSupply Waters” story was that many distributors struggle to compete with the online “giants”. tED Magazine researched tips you can…

Greece Politics: A Key Player in the Copper Market

By Jim Williams Copper prices rebounded from a new 5.5-year low to close up a tick to start the week, thanks in part to an election in Greece. The base…

Baird Research Study Shows Signs For Growth In 2015

By Scott Costa, Publisher, tED Magazine “There are a lot of people spending a bunch of money all of a sudden.” That quote is from one of the respondents to…

IDEA’s February Data Compliance Deadline Looms

By Bridget McCrea With the February 1 deadline looming for manufacturers to input their new product data into IDEA’s existing data warehouse, and with just half of the new products…

Contractor’s Corner: Bridging the Generation Gap

By Jim Williams Welcome to the initial Contractors’ Corner for 2015! We wanted to start the year out with an interesting topic – Spanning the Generation Gap between Distributors and Contractors.…

No Where To Go But Up…

By Jim Williams No Where To Go But Up… The quote in its entirety is, “When you’ve hit rock bottom, there’s no where to go but up.” – Anonymous OK,…

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