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Electrical Wholesaling’s 2026 Top 100 Ranking

William Attardi on June 4, 2026

This year’s listing of the largest electrical distributors in North America is sponsored by LEDVANCE. Electrical Wholesaling’s2026 Top 100 electrical distributors remain quite bullish on their 2026 sales prospects despite economic uncertainty in the overall economy because of the war in Iran, the related spike in inflation, a still-slumbering residential market and sluggish new office construction in many metros. Despite these concerns, the average 2025 revenue increase for the 70-plus distributors who provided sales data was +9.3%. Data centers were by far the most common large construction projects mentioned by Top 100 execs. Leon Mowadia, COO, Facility Solutions Group (FSG) , Austin, TX, said FSG has also worked on several large Manhattan office buildings, as well as Netflix’s studio being built in Fort Monmouth, NJ, and other large commercial projects in Denver, Chicago and Los Angeles.  Electrical Wholesaling’s 2026 Top 100 Ranking | Electrical Wholesaling

STP is Customer-Centric Marketing

William Attardi on June 12, 2025

STP Is Customer-Centric Marketing.mp4

Sponsored by FSG

Serving the People Who Make Businesses Thrive | FSG & the Return to Office

Segmenting / Targeting / Positioning (STP) is a necessary function of marketing – customer-centric marketing. The reality is that the vast majority of customers will not buy your stuff.   Even Amazon knows that.  That’s why they have a membership model.  STP is a sequential and interdependent process:

  • Effectively segmenting the market
  • Carefully selecting the target audience
  • Strategically positioning your products & services

 Next month – You Write It / AI Fine-Tunes It! 

  1. Why AI
  2. Addressing AI Misuse
  3. The Future is Here

AI’s full impact on education—and life—is just beginning to unfold. But one thing is already clear: it is the most powerful learning tool ever created, and it can enhance everything we do.

Interesting: The Three Pillars of Independence of an Organization

The 3 Pillars of Independence most commonly refers to a framework from the UK voluntary sector (specifically promoted by organizations like Bond and the Directory of Social Change). It is a toolkit for assessing and maintaining the independence of charities, NGOs, or civil society organizations.

The Three Pillars are:

  1. Independent of Party Politics – The organization (or regulator) must remain free from bias or influence by any political party or the government of the day. Decisions should be impartial, not favoring one political side.
  2. Independent of Populism – It should not be swayed by popular public opinion, media-driven campaigns, or transient public pressure, especially on controversial or unpopular causes.
  3. Independent of the Press – Freedom from media influence or pressure, ensuring decisions are based on evidence and law rather than headlines or public narratives.

This toolkit was created to monitor potential political encroachment on charitable regulation and to ensure charities can operate without undue external interference.

 

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