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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…

Copper Prices – It’s A Wait and See Week

By Jim Williams Copper futures played a small game of see saw to start trading this week as all eyes are looking ahead. That’s because there are a series of…

LED Fixtures to Replace High Wattage HID

By Stan Walerczyk Until recently, LED fixtures were too expensive to replace high wattage HID because so many LEDs were required, and there is an added cost for each additional…

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