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Plenty of executive appointments over the past two weeks. Here’s Electrical Marketing’s expanded coverage of personnel changes in the electrical market.
Dec. 21, 2012
Wire man John Pasqual and lighting rep Jack Melnick
Dec. 21, 2012
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Electrical product prices remained on their flat trend, showing no change from October and little change in almost all major product categories.
Dec. 21, 2012
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Privately-owned housing starts in November were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 861,000, 3% below the revised October estimate, but 21.6% above the Nov. 2011 rate.
Dec. 21, 2012
Dec. 21, 2012
Veteran reps form new agency in Raleigh; WinWholesale buys Lloyd Graves in Texas; United Electric Supply expands through acquisition; and more.
Dec. 21, 2012
W.W. Grainger Inc., Lake Forest, Ill., announced plans to purchase Techni-Tool Inc., Worcester, Pa., a 200-plus employee distributor supplying customers in the cable television...
Dec. 21, 2012
Kaman Industrial Technologies (KIT), the industrial distribution business Kaman Corp., Bloomfield, Conn., has built up in recent acquisitions of Minarik, Zeller Electric and others...
Dec. 21, 2012
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered an update on the city’s plans to renovate its infrastructure to withstand future storms.
Dec. 7, 2012

IDEA to help manufacturers fill out product attribute schema

IDEA, Arlington, Va., launched a new Attribute Fulfillment Service (AFS) to help manufacturers with the work involved in populating standardized product marketing content into IDEA’s Industry Data Warehouse (IDW)
July 22, 2011

IDEA, Arlington, Va., launched a new Attribute Fulfillment Service (AFS) to help manufacturers with the work involved in populating standardized product marketing content into IDEA’s Industry Data Warehouse (IDW). The IDW provides a centralized location for manufacturers to synchronize product information electronically with their trading partners. Trial projects showed that AFS outsourcing helps manufacturers populate the IDW with marketing content in half the time and one-third the price compared to using internal resources, IDEA said. The new service, offered in partnership with data service provider DATAgility, includes populating the attributes defined in the IDW’s Electrical Attribute Schema.