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Hints of Optimism at NAED Summit
May 21, 2010
Electrical distributors, manufacturers and reps who attended the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED) annual National Leadership Summit in Chicago this week were far more upbeat about the prospects for a recovery...
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IMARK in Alliance with HVAC, PVF Groups
Apr 23, 2010
Electrical distributor buying/marketing group IMARK Group, Oxon Hills, Md., has joined forces with distributor cooperatives in two other vertical industries to create an umbrella group, United Cooperative Alliance of America...
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NEMRA Reps Gather in New York City
Feb 26, 2010,
By Jim Lucy
The payoff for the reps and manufacturers who invested their time at this year’s National Electrical Manufacturers Representatives Association annual conference was readily apparent at New York’s Marriott Marquis Hotel...
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NEMA’s EBCI Rebounds in January
Feb 12, 2010
NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions rebounded in January, rising nearly nine points to 57.1 points....
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NAW 2010 Report
Feb 12, 2010,
By Jim Lucy
Bruised and battered from one of the worst years in the distribution trade’s history, attendees came to this year’s annual conference of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW) singing the same song...
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NAED Western Draws Good Crowd
Jan 22, 2010,
By Jim Lucy
Despite the down economy, the NAED Western Region Conference held in San Diego Jan. 13-15 drew an estimated 175 distributor attendees from 68 electrical supply houses and 25 independent manufacturers’ reps from 11 firms covering the Western region, as well as dozens of manufacturers...
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IDEA Releases New Attribute Schema
Oct 9, 2009,
Doug Chandler
Electrical distributors pushing to be on the forefront of electronic commerce have been clamoring for years for their manufacturers to provide more detailed data about their products....
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IEEE to meet on smart grid standards
May 8, 2009
IEEE announced that it will host the first of a series of meetings aimed at developing communication and interoperability standards for controlling the smart grid next month....
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Recyclers Gather for PEARL Conference
Apr 24, 2009
The electrical recyclers and aftermarket dealers who gathered in Atlanta last weekend for the 12th annual Electrical Safety and Reliability Conference...
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NEMRA Enjoys Solid Attendance at Annual
Mar 27, 2009
In a business climate where many trade show organizers were seeing attendance at their conferences and trade shows plummet by 30 percent or more, staffers...
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Industry execs brave economy to attend NAED South Central
Feb 27, 2009
Despite recessionary pressures, an estimated 162 distributor executives from 60 electrical supply houses and more than 260 manufacturer executives from 105 vendors are attending the 2009 South Central Conference held Feb. 25-Feb. 29...
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NAW Execs Say Obama Administration Will Face Familiar Challenges
Jan 30, 2009,
By Jim Lucy, EW
As the Obama Administration gets settled in at The White House, a few blocks away at the annual conference of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW), held Jan. 27-29 in Washington, D.C., several veterans of the legislative wars on Capitol Hill say it’s a little too early to tell how well the new administration will work with NAW and other pro-business trade groups....
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Industry Calendar
Sept. 20–22
IDEA E-Biz Forum
Dallas; IDEA; 703-562-4600;
www.idea-esolutions.com
Sept. 26–29
A-D Electrical Supply Division North American Meeting
Dallas; Affiliated Distributors (A-D)
610-977-3100; www.mya-d.net
Oct. 2-5
NECA Annual
Boston; National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA)
(301) 657-3110; www.necanet.org
Nov. 5-Nov. 6
NEMA 84th Annual Meeting
Palm Beach, Fla.; National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA),
(703) 841-3200; www.nema.org
Nov. 8- Nov. 10
NAED Eastern Region Conference
Orlando; NAED,
(888) 791-2512; www.naed.org
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