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NEMA EBCI Index Looks Solid in December
Jan 14, 2012
Business conditions in the manufacturing community ended the year in growth territory. The Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions exceeded the 50-point mark indicating a growth business environment in December for a third consecutive month....
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Congress Takes Step Backward on Lamp Efficiency Enforcement in Spending Bill
Dec 23, 2011
The 2007 law mandating stricter efficiency standards for lighting, which begins to take effect next month, is still the law of the land but the government will provide no funds for enforcing it through September, the end of the federal government’s fiscal year, due to a rider on the onmibus spending package passed by Congress last week....
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CEA forms smart grid committee
Dec 9, 2011
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), Arlington, Va., announced the formation of a new committee to advance the standardization of the Modular Communications Interface (MCI) specification...
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IDEA E-Biz Forum Charges Up Tech Crowd
Oct 10, 2011
The crowd at the IDEA E-Biz Forum, the annual meeting of the electrical wholesaling market’s technical tribes, is always a little bit different than other industry gatherings...
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Electrical Distributors Give Congress a Reality-Check on Impact of Legislation
Sep 23, 2011
United States Senators and Representatives got the real-world business perspective of electrical distributors from their districts on a number of issues earlier this month when a pack of about 30 members of the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED) descended on Washington, D.C., on Sept. 7-8 for the association’s first-ever Congressional Fly-In...
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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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Industry Calendar
January 16-18, 2012
NAED Western Conference
Phoenix; National Association of
Electrical Distributors (NAED)
314-991-9000
www.naed.org
January 31-February 2
NAW Leadership Summit
Washington, D.C.; National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW)
202-872-0885
www.naw.org
February 1-4
2012 NEMRA Annual
San Diego; National ElectricalÂ
Manufacturers Representatives Association (NEMRA)
800-446-3672
www.nemra.org
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