Paradise Lost

Published Saturday, July 01, 2006

Last month's article on specialty wire and cable distributors, (see “Wire World,” June 2006, page 40), hit a raw nerve for many electrical distributors: the commercial voice/data/video (VDV) market. Not all that long ago, this was supposed to be the Next Big Thing for full-line electrical distributors, an explosive market opportunity that would outpace the pipe-and-wire business by growing at double-digit annual growth rates for years. In the mid-1990s, with the Web emerging, every business consultant on the planet looked into their crystal balls and saw an insatiable appetite for the nuts-and-bolts of the VDV infrastructure that would ...

Paradise Lost

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