Electrical Wholesaling Podcasts

Check out the electrical product price spikes and huge projects now in the construction pipeline in Episode #122 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

Episode #121 of Electrical Wholesaling's Today's Electrical Economy podcast sponsored by Champion Fiberglass presents a new cut of key market indicators and explores trends from EW's 2025 Top 100 survey.

Episode 120 of Electrical Wholesaling's Today's Electrical Economy podcast offers an insider's look at Top 100 distributors' take on the 2025 economy. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

In Episode #119 of Electrical Wholesaling's Today's Electrical Economy podcast, you can check out distributors' forecasts in the latest EW/VRP Electrical Marketing Business Conditions survey and see some fresh pricing data from Electrical Marketing's Electrical Price Index Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

Episode 117 of Electrical Wholesaling's Today's Electrical Economy podcast series sponsored by Champion Fiberglass explores the impact of tariffs on electrical stocks & looks at 2025's busiest market for residential new construction.

Need a quick read on which local areas are showing signs of growth?  Episode 116 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast series sponsored by Champion Fiberglass explores  the metropolitan areas, counties, micropolitan areas and states seeing the biggest population increases. 

In this episode of Electrical Wholesaling's Executive Insights, Roger Little, Rexel USA's CEO, offers some great insight into growth opportunities in data centers and energy, the challenges with tariffs and the company's acquisition philosophy.

Along with discussing several key economic indicators that may already be impacted by tariff talks and global uncertainty over the war in Ukraine, Episode # 115 of Electrical Wholesaling's Today's Electrical Economy Podcast explores the largest data center, airport and hospital projects now in the pipeline. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

In this Electrical Wholesaling Executive Insights Podcast, Bud DeFlaviis director of government relations for the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED), offers an insider's take on the legislative issues of most interest to the electrical market. He discusses tariffs, energy issues, business legislation and more.

Episode 114 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast series explores Electrical Marketing's latest sales potential estimates for 17 key electrical product categories. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

In this Electrical Wholesaling Executive Insights podcast, EW Editor-in-Chief Jim Lucy explains why the electrical industry could get hit harder by tariffs than many other industries because so many electrical products have high such high steel, aluminum and copper content.

Episode #113 of Electrical Wholesaling's Today's Electrical Economy podcast will look at the metropolitan areas with the biggest increases in sales potential and building permit activity. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

In this Electrical Wholesaling Executive Insights podcast, learn why Panduit's Bob Krisel and Jeff Krossel are excited about new sales opportunities electrification will create & the company's new plant in Mexico.

Episode #112 of Electrical Wholesaling's Today's Electrical Economy podcast covers the newest billion-dollar data centers & hot electrical stocks. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

Episode #111 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast series by Electrical Wholesaling explores the largest counties for contractor and industrial sales potential. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

Episode #110 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast series will cover 2024's biggest news stories and look at EW's Picks for 2025's biggest growth opportunities & trends to watch.

Episode #109 of Electrical Wholesaling's Today's Electrical Economy podcast series explores the nation's fastest-growing contractor and industrial markets and the South Atlantic Region. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

Jim Lucy, EW's editor-in-chief, provides an overview of this year's Market Planning Guide and offers some tips on how to navigate through all the data.

Episode 108 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast series sponsored by Champion Fiberglass  will take a look at the largest local and state electrical market, with information from Electrical Wholesaling's 2025 Market Planning Guide.

Episode 107 of Electrical Wholesaling's Today's Electrical Economy podcast series sponsored by Champion Fiberglass  will take a look at the billion-dollar hospital, airport and data center projects that entered the pipeline over the past few months.

Episode #106 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast series sponsored by Champion Fiberglass  will take a look at the results of the Electrical Wholesaling/Vertical Research Partners survey on business conditions in the electrical market and discuss highlights from Electrical Marketing's most recent Electrical Price Index.

Episode 105 of Electrical Wholesaling's Today's Electrical Economy podcast series sponsored by Champion Fiberglass analyzes several key market indicators and looks at a state that is quietly becoming a very hot electrical market - Indiana.

Episode #104 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast offers a sneak peek at our latest local and state sales estimates. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

Benchmark International's Clinton Johnston on why buyers are searching for distributors in today's M&A market.

Episode #103 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast series sponsored by Champion Fiberglass explores 11 key leading economic indicators that point to future economic conditions in the electrical market.

Episode 102 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast sponsored by Champion explores EW's latest list of County All-Stars: The U.S. Counties Growing the Fastest and Offering Big Increases in Electrical Potential Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

Welcome to Electrical Wholesaling's latest Executive Insights podcast. Our guest is Brian Di Bella, the president and CEO of Legrand's North & Central America business. We are delighted to get on his busy schedule to discuss what he sees as some terrific growth opportunities for Legrand, its distributors and end users installing these products.

See which metros are 2024's hottest residential construction markets in Episode #101 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast.

Episode 100 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast sponsored by Champion Fiberglass offers an update on electrical product pricing trends and a sneak preview of the 2024 Mid-Year Economic Update by Vertical Research Partners and Electrical Wholesaling.

In this episode of Electrical Wholesaling's Electrical Insights podcast series, Mark Serafino of Sincerely Speaking offers some tips on mentoring young salespeople.

Electrical Wholesaling's Episode #99 of the Today's Electrical Economy Podcast series looks at the publicly owned electrical stocks showing the most growth in 2Q 2024 and the hottest segments of the construction market. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

Episode #98 of Electrical Wholesaling's Today's Electrical Economy podcast series explores some of the largest construction projects underway and in the planning stages. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

Episode 97 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast sponsored by Champion looks at the 10 largest distributors in Electrical Wholesaling's 2024 Top 100 ranking. 

Episode 96 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast sponsored by Champion looks at some of large construction projects Top 150 distributors are working on and provides some interesting commentary of what's happening with copper prices.

Episode 95 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast sponsored by Champion looks at some early results from Electrical Wholesaling's 2024 Top 150 Distributors survey.

Tesla's network of 50,000-plus installed superchargers have been the gold standard in the EV charging industry for their fast charging times and dependability.

Frank Hurtte talked with more than 200 salespeople and sales managers as part of the research for his latest book, The New Sales Guy Project. Electrical Wholesaling's Jim Lucy sat down with Frank to learn how  he had so much fun learning from and teaching the industry's new generation of salespeople.

Episode 94 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast is sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

Episode 93 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast sponsored by Champion Fiberglass looks at electrical stocks winners and losers in 1Q 2024 and a new look for GE after its spinoff of its aerospace and power divisions. 

Episode 92 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast sponsored by Champion Fiberglass looks at the latest pricing trends from Electrical Marketing's Electrical Price Index , some blockbluster distributor acquisitions and the LEDucation lighting show.

Bob Tortorello, VP of sales for Optec LED Lighting, sat down with Jim Lucy, editor-in-chief, Electrical Wholesaling, to discuss his love for the lighting business, how Optec LED competes with the lighting giants for business in the parking garage lighting and area lighting markets, and why today's exciting advances in LEDs continue to make the lighting market is a great place for young people to start their careers.

Electrical Wholesaling's Today's Electrical Economy - Episode 91 highlights some of the largest construction projects that have made headlines in 1Q 2024. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

Episode 90 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast sponsored by Champion Fiberglass looks at the latest pricing trends from Electrical Marketing's Electrical Price Index and the largest local markets for building permits in 2023.

Knowles and the ATI Electrical team have supplied switchgear, substations, temporary power and related products to several high-profile projects in Las Vegas, including the MGM Sphere, T-Mobile Arena, Resorts World and Las Vegas Water District.

Episode 89 of the Today's Electrical Economy podcast looks at the drivers for a surge in data center construction and some other large projects now on the drawing boards and in the construction pipeline. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

This podcast looks at several key leading economic indicators for the electrical market and the latest product pricing trends in Electrical Marketing's Electrical Price Index.  Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

This Electrical Wholesaling podcast looks at some large construction projects now in the pipeline and highlight the electrical stocks that did the best in 2023. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

This podcast looks at Electrical Wholesaling's picks for the hottest construction niches in 2024. 

Get Chris Sokoll's 2024 Electrical Market Outlook and tips for more effective marketing planning. Chris is the president of DISC Corp. (www.disccorp.com), the electrical market's leading provider of industry sales data.

In this podcast, we will look at electrical sales forecasts for 2024 from Electrical Wholesaling, DISC and several other economist. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.

Episode # 84 of the Electrical Wholesaling's Today's Electrical Economy podcast looks at the latest trends in Electrical Marketings' Electrical Price Index. Sponsored by Champion Fiberglass.