The Top 200
By Jim Lucy, Chief Editor and Doug Chandler, Executive Editor
Electrical Wholesaling's annual listing of the Top 200 electrical distributors provides a fascinating snapshot of the largest distributors in the land....
Gut Check
By Herm Isenstein
The overall economy continues to be in dire straits and it is taking its toll on the electrical distribution industry. Because industry performance this...
Transactions and Profits
By Scott Benfield
Using transactions for cost allocations can reveal key ways to improve profitability....
RAB Lighting Introduces the Greendola
RAB Lighting, Northvale, N.J., recently introduced the a new display that provides energy saving products and merchandising in one easy package. For any...
Electrical Wholesaling's annual listing of the largest distributors in the U.S. electrical products channel is an industry benchmark. Since the 1970s, the electrical industry has looked to the EW Top 200 for insights on how the industry's largest distributors have fared over the past year.
For a look at past Top 200 lists, start from our Top 200 page and you can reach all our discussion of the survey results, all the lists in rank and alphabetical order, charts of various findings from our research and links to further resources.
Managing Price Risk
Apr 1, 2009 12:00 PM,
By John Gross
Hedging can help protect buyers of copper and other metals from wild swings in prices...
Copper Expert Joins EW's Contributing Writers
Jan 5, 2009 12:00 PM,
For obvious reasons, reader interest in copper pricing appears to be at an all-time high. One indicator of this interest is the number of hits Electrical...
Economic News and Information
Get the latest news on how the economy is impacting the electrical wholesaling industry. Don't miss this important information...
Solar in Space Not that Far-Fetched
California utility PG&E has signed a deal for the world's first space-based solar power plant, to be built by Solaren, a Southern California startup staffed...
Solar in Spain
Solar is hot, hot, hot in Spain, and Electrical Wholesaling will be bringing you daily reports over the next few days on how sunny Spain is now leading the world in the amount of solar energy being generated by utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) installations. ...
Solon Manufacturing Celebrates 60 Years
In 1949, four fraternity brothers from Case Western Reserve engineers, inventors, risk-takers joined forces to create Solon Manufacturing Co. It was a...
New Program to Help Manufacturers Find Reps
Euro Marketing + Research (EMR), Waiblingen, Germany, has introduced a database program called for efficiently identifying electrical sales representatives...