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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

NAW “Tool Kit” Offers Interactive Self-Help for Wholesaler-Distributors

A new workbook/CD set from the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, Washington, D.C., is aimed at helping companies ask the right questions,
Aug. 15, 2003

A new workbook/CD set from the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, Washington, D.C., is aimed at helping companies ask the right questions, diagnose problems and make needed repairs in the correct order. The “Toolkit” for Improved Business Performance in Wholesale Distribution” contains strategic and tactical techniques plus reference documents including detailed procedures, formulas and examples that give distributors tools they can put to use immediately. To determine issues of highest priority, users start with a questionnaire in the workbook called “My most critical needs.” Answers point to the most relevant chapter or chapters in the book and then on to related sections on the CD, which is filled with hundreds of pages of practical, useful resource material. This is “living” information, consisting of forms, spreadsheets and other documents that users can fill in with their company’s data for an accurate, real-time profile of problems and a menu of solutions. Prices are as follows: NAW Direct Member, $249; Member of NAW Member Association, $299; Non-Member, $349. NAW offers four ways to order: For more information, go to www.naw.org or call Jamie Yeh at 202-872-0885.