CE Pro Plus

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

It may not have known it at the time, but now looking back on the past 20 months, Mesa, Ariz.-based Automated Environments couldn’t have picked a worse time to make a major investment in the company. …

Monday, April 12, 2010

As more lines sell through distribution, independent manufacturers' reps are sometimes forgotten vital cogs in the custom installation industry. But they are working hard these days to help their vendors and dealer/customers. In this economy,…

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Despite a slight drop between January and February in the CE Pro Business Conditions Index (BCI), the majority of CE pros remain optimistic market conditions will improve for their company during the next three months. …

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

JVC (17 percent), Epson (14 percent) and Runco (11 percent) are the brands of front projectors used most frequently by custom installers, according to EH Research's annual Brand Awareness, Use and Preference survey. A solid…

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The State-by-State Housing Report (pdf) from EH Research offers a look 2009 residential permits trends throughout the United States through October 2009. The total number of residential building permits in the…

Monday, February 22, 2010

What a difference a year makes! The average stock price for 24 publicly owned custom electronics companies rose an incredible 47.5 percent in 2009. (View Chart) There was

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Housing market trends continue to slowly improve — but that means the 2009 data (reflected through October) is growing less negative when compared to the 2008 totals. The recovery in new housing construction has…

Friday, February 12, 2010

Denon and Russound are the brands of amplifiers and preamplifiers used most frequently by installers, according to EH Research’s annual Brand Awareness, Use and Preference survey. A solid six percent of respondents used Crestron, Marantz…

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The market for full-scale building automation is about to explode and integrators are well-positioned to benefit from it, according to a report by Acclaro Growth Partners. Building managers increasingly want to…

Friday, February 05, 2010

Diversification is not only good for integration companies, but also for certain manufacturers. That appears to be the case with Sanyo North America, now that Panasonic's acquisition of Sanyo…