EW's Latest Metro- and State-Level Sales Estimates

Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass, our July 6 update gives a quick read on the key economic indicators measuring the electrical market and some interesting results from the Channel Marketing Group/DISC study on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

Jim Lucy

Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass, the July 6, 2020 update of our Today's Electrical Economy podcast series explores key weekly economic indicators that offer insight into the direction of the electrical economy and interesting data from the latest Channel Marketing Group/DISC Corp. survey about the impact the COVID-19 crisis is having on the electrical market.

About the Author

Jim Lucy | Editor-in-Chief of Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing

Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 40 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter, and as a contributing writer for EC&M magazine During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement.

Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted with his wife and three sons in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 30 years.