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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.
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Wire man John Pasqual and lighting rep Jack Melnick
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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
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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 Backs Global E-Biz Standards

IDEA, Arlington, Va., entered into a collaborative partnership with the European Technical Information Model (ETIM), the European equivalent to the North American electrical industry's UNSPSC Electrical Attribute Schema used to communicate product information.
Aug. 10, 2012

IDEA, Arlington, Va., entered into a collaborative partnership with the European Technical Information Model (ETIM), the European equivalent to the North American electrical industry’s UNSPSC Electrical Attribute Schema used to communicate product information. This partnership will help align the ecommerce standards used within the wholesale distribution channel with their counterparts in Europe to make global business more efficient for electrical manufacturers and distributors.

IDEA led the development of the UNSPSC Electrical Attribute Schema to give electrical manufacturers a guide to provide descriptive marketing content to their trading partners in the U.S. and Canada. IDEA will work with ETIM International to align the standards and develop a cross reference so that manufacturers can quickly send their marketing content to their U.S., Canadian and European distributors simultaneously.

Mary Shaw, IDEA’s director of standards, briefed the ETIM International board during the European Union of Electrical Wholesalers (EUEW) General Convention in Amsterdam earlier this year. The presentation was followed by discussion of a partnership to align standards development.