http://ewweb.com/ en-us http://ewweb.com/mag/electric_president_northeast_electrical Don Block, President of NorthEast Electrical Distributors, Canton, Mass., recently shared his experience and knowledge of distributor operations with Quinnipiac University students as a guest lecturer for the university's Operations Management class. The undergraduate course, provided through the university's School of Business, focuses on teaching students how companies can use inventories, capacity, mag Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://ewweb.com/news/bulbo/electric_solon_manufacturing_celebrates In 1949, four fraternity brothers from Case Western Reserve engineers, inventors, risk-takers joined forces to create Solon Manufacturing Co. It was a time of post-war industrialism in northeast Ohio. They built a 3,000-square-foot building and began making conduit benders and products for cleaning auto parts. In the 1950s, they added Belleville springs. Through the 1960s, with a move to Chardon, bulbo Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://ewweb.com/newswatch/electric_rab_lighting_introduces RAB Lighting, Northvale, N.J., recently introduced the a new display that provides energy saving products and merchandising in one easy package. For any distributor that wants to promote the green initiative, the Greendola is an easy way to quickly display energy efficient products and immediately identify their counter-area as green, says Terri Dumas RAB's vice president of marketing, . Made from newswatch Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://ewweb.com/top200/2009/annual-sales-2004-2008 The Top 200 electrical distributors account for a huge piece of the electrical market, but according to Electrical Wholesaling's estimates, that market share actually declines by more than two percent in 2008 from 2007. 2009 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:31:00 EDT http://ewweb.com/top200/2009/biggest-electrical-distributors-worldwide Rexel and Sonepar are far and away the two biggest electrical distributors in the world. Both companies have been quiet on the acquisition front in the past few months 2009 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:30:00 EDT