Jim Lucy

Overland Park

Editor-in-Chief at Electrical Wholesaling Magazine

Editor-in-Chief at Electrical Marketing

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A Look Inside Electrical Wholesaling's 2025 Top 100

1 week ago | ewweb.com | Jim Lucy

Over the past 40-plus years, hundreds of Jim’s articles have been published in Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter on topics such as the impact of amazonsupply.com and other new competitors on the electrical market’s channels of distribution, energy-efficient lighting and renewables, and local market economics. In addition to his published work, Jim regularly gives presentations on these topics to C-suite executives, industry groups and investment analysts.
Top Takeaways from Electrical Wholesaling's 2025 Top 100

2 weeks ago | ewweb.com | Jim Lucy

Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 40 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter, and as a contributing writer for EC&M magazine During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker.
Tops in Sales-per Employee

2 weeks ago | ewweb.com | Jim Lucy

Over the past 40-plus years, hundreds of Jim’s articles have been published in Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter on topics such as the impact of amazonsupply.com and other new competitors on the electrical market’s channels of distribution, energy-efficient lighting and renewables, and local market economics. In addition to his published work, Jim regularly gives presentations on these topics to C-suite executives, industry groups and investment analysts.
Electrical Wholesaling's 2025 Top 100 Electrical Distributors

2 weeks ago | ewweb.com | Jim Lucy

Electrical Wholesaling has been ranking the electrical wholesaling’s largest distributors for more than 40 years, but EW’s editors can’t remember a time when distributors’ revenue forecasts, year-over-year (YOY) revenue growth and expectations for health of the overall U.S. economy showed such a wide disparity.
What’s New with Top 100 Distributors

2 weeks ago | ewweb.com | Jim Lucy

Despite the uncertain economic outlook, the nation’s largest electrical distributors have continued to invest in their businesses in a big way. Many opened up new branch locations, and some upgraded or replaced their ERP systems. Let’s take a look at some of these initiatives.
Large Airport, Hospital & Data Center Projects Support Overall Construction Activity

3 weeks ago | electricalmarketing.com | Jim Lucy

Although the full potential impact of tariffs on the cost of construction materials is still to be determined, the new construction projects showed steady year-over-year growth through March 2025. Total construction spending through the first three months of the year was down slightly from Feb. 2025 at $2,196.1 billion but remained +2.9% above March 2024 spending levels. And over the past three months, spending on mega-projects doesn't appear to have slowed down much at all.
Latest Electrical Pricing Trends & 3Q 2025 Mega-Projects

3 weeks ago | ewweb.com | Jim Lucy

Over the past 40-plus years, hundreds of Jim’s articles have been published in Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter on topics such as the impact of amazonsupply.com and other new competitors on the electrical market’s channels of distribution, energy-efficient lighting and renewables, and local market economics. In addition to his published work, Jim regularly gives presentations on these topics to C-suite executives, industry groups and investment analysts.
Electrical Wholesaling's May 2025 Product Picks

1 month ago | ewweb.com | Jim Lucy

The Spiral office building that broke ground this year is the latest addition to Hudson Yards, the largest private construction project in the U.S. -- Tishman Speyer / www.thespiralny.com
EW's The Electrical Market By the Numbers and More Top 100 Distributors Insight

1 month ago | ewweb.com | Jim Lucy

Over the past 40-plus years, hundreds of Jim’s articles have been published in Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter on topics such as the impact of amazonsupply.com and other new competitors on the electrical market’s channels of distribution, energy-efficient lighting and renewables, and local market economics. In addition to his published work, Jim regularly gives presentations on these topics to C-suite executives, industry groups and investment analysts.
Single-Family Building Market Projections for 2025

1 month ago | ecmweb.com | Jim Lucy

Although United States single-family building permits saw some decent growth in 2024 — with a 6.7% increase to 981,834 units — home builders are concerned about the impact of tariffs on many of the key building materials they install in homes. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) estimates that 7.3% of all building materials used in new residential construction last year were supplied from a foreign country.