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Stan Walerczyk In the last year, LED performance and pricing have really improved. I have been presenting seminars comparing LEDs with high performance incumbent technologies since the 2011 Lightfair. With…
Copper Update – It’s all about Qingdao
By Jim Williams “It’ll all blow up. Or it’ll all blow over.” – Head of one LME brokerage Copper futures opened the week lower on the London Metal Exchange…
Contractor’s Corner: Joe Martin, KenMor Electric
By Jim Williams The latest Contractor’s Corner comes from the Lone Star State. We went in expecting a specific answer, but was pleasantly surprised by the answer Joe Martin, Vice…
New Jersey Contractor Says No Thanks To Online Distributors
By Bridget McCrea New Jersey electrical contractor can’t envision a time when an online seller like AmazonSupply replaces its reliable supply houses. The father-daughter team of Anthony Maglio Jr., and…
Grainger focuses on their own e-commerce strategy, not on Amazon
By Jack Keough If there is one distributor who can take AmazonSupply.com head on, experts say, it is Grainger, the MRO industry giant whose e-commerce sales now comprise a third…
Copper Starts The Week With Some Impressive Gains
By Jim Williams Copper futures rallied more than 1% to start the week as investors applauded an upbeat report on China’s manufacturing sector. Data released over the weekend showed that…
Lowes Relaunches Website Aimed At Contractors
Now that Google Shopping for Suppliers has gone away the threat of online distributorship has eased slightly. But, this might have gotten past you. On May 21st, Lowe’s held its…