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Discover how AI is transforming electrical distribution—from customer insights to ecommerce efficiency—in this exclusive webinar with industry leaders from DDS and ECI.
Oct. 22, 2025
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Choosing the right B2B eCommerce platform shouldn't feel like a game of chance. Building your own can drain resources and lead to unforeseen complexities. But beware: opting for...
Aug. 6, 2025
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In a world where manufacturers are increasingly capable of selling directly to end users, traditional distributors face a critical choice: embrace the power of B2B eCommerce or...
Aug. 6, 2025
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When to replatform. How to do it right. What to expect afterward. This practical guide walks you through the full replatforming process, from recognizing the early signs it’s ...
Aug. 6, 2025

Executive Insights

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In this EW Executive Insights podcast, Patrick Knight, IDEA’s president & CEO, tells listeners how IDEA’s portfolio of e-business tools and services can help the electrical market...
July 15, 2025
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While federal rebates and financial incentives for EV chargers may be trimmed back, BriteSwitch’s Leendert Jan Enthoven guides listeners to the many other sources of lucrative...
June 30, 2025
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In this podcast you will learn why Mary Shaw is so passionate about electrical product standards, and why she believes they form the foundation of the digital electrical marketplace...
June 24, 2025
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Roger Little, Rexel USA's CEO, offers some great insight into growth opportunities in data centers and energy, the challenges with tariffs and the company's acquisition philosophy...
March 11, 2025

News

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The National Electrical Manufacturers Representatives Association (NEMRA), Carmel, IN, released its always eagerly anticipated Rep of the Future Report. The report is based upon...
Sept. 30, 2025
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JD Martin Co. has acquired Utility Agency & Import (UAI Reps), now operating as UAI Martin LLC, to strengthen its position in electrical utility, transmission, distribution, and...
Sept. 30, 2025
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USA Rare Earth is developing a rare earth magnet manufacturing plant in Stillwater, OK, and intends to establish domestic rare earth and critical minerals supply, extraction and...
Sept. 29, 2025
Affiliated Distributors
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AD, Wayne, PA, is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the historic merger between AD and IMARK Electrical. Since forming the AD Independent Electrical Supply Division (IESD...
Sept. 26, 2025

Business Management

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Winsupply, Dayton, OH, is now utilizing STACK Construction Technologies, a cloud-based takeoff solution to  enabling standardized workflows, stronger collaboration and integration...
Sept. 12, 2025
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This article offers seven tips to help managers maintain control over their CRM strategies by appointing a dedicated leader, conducting thorough audits and using structured evaluation...
Sept. 5, 2025
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PHCP industry brings together two member-owned groups consisting of 325 independently owned independent PHCP distributors in the U.S. and will be part of the overall AD community...
Sept. 2, 2025
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Epicor (Austin, TX) Kerrie Jordan, an ERP industry veteran, was appointed Chief Marketing Officer. With a blend of senior product innovation and strategic marketing experience...
Aug. 12, 2025

Electrical Economy

Updates on Electrical Pricing and New Data Centers
In today’s podcast we will check out some highlights from Electrical Marketing’s Electrical Price Index and look at some new truly huge data centers now in the pipeline.
Sept. 20, 2025
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The Charlotte metro has several big data center projects in the proposal stage, including a $10-billion Amazon data center and AI campus in Hamlet, NC.
Sept. 12, 2025
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Through July 2025, the metro was one of the few MSAs in the nation seeing a double-digit increase in multi-family building permits with a +13.8% year-to-date increase to 3,682...
Sept. 10, 2025
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Electrical Wholesaling’s new Electrical Market By the Numbers analysis for Sept. 2025 seems to reflect many of the economists’ prognostications you hear right now ...
Sept. 9, 2025

Market Planning Guide

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Electrical Wholesaling's 2025 Market Planning Guide (MPG) offers electrical execs a mountain of data and analysis. Here are our picks for the Top 10 Takeaways from this year's...
Dec. 9, 2024
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Electrical Wholesaling's editors collected data on construction projects valued at $100 million or higher through Oct. 2024 for the 2025 Market Planning Guide.
Dec. 6, 2024
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Jim Lucy, EW's editor-in-chief, provides an overview of this year's Market Planning Guide and offers some tips on how to navigate through all the data.
Dec. 2, 2024
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Use this employment data with EW's sales-per-employee estimates for Electrical contractors of $78,775 per employee and industrial customers of $2,650 per employee to develop sales...
Dec. 2, 2024

Top 100

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On the the road and want an audio-only version of Episode #123 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast sponsored by Champion Fiberglass? This podcast looks at some fresh data...
June 16, 2025
A Look Inside Electrical Wholesaling's 2025 Top 100
Episode #123 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast sponsored by Champion Fiberglass looks at some fresh data that came out in the 2025 Top 100 ranking.
June 16, 2025
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Top 100 full-line electrical distributors had an average sales-per-employee figure of $1,059,519 per employee, up +9% from the 2024 number of $971,254.
June 10, 2025
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Technological change & opportunties and a jittery U.S. economy are top of mind for this year's largest distributors.
June 10, 2025