Articles Tagged with ''distributors''

Almost 700 attendees participated in WIT & Co.’s 2014 Distributor/Vendor Conference in Dallas.

Aaron & Co.’s Mike Laudino and Lindsey Portnoy-Rodner know all eyes are on them. Laudino, 32, and Portnoy-Rodner, 28, are third-generation executives at the Piscataway, N.J.-based distributor of plumbing, heating and cooling products.

Find out who made the list for the second annual Supply House Times Young Execs 20!

American Supply Association and Plumbing Manufacturers International have come together to host a combined legislative fly-in.

These five areas of channel conflict stem from changes that, largely, began in the 1990s and just as partnership efforts were reaching their peak.

While the PHCP segment saw 3.4% growth, the industrial PVF segment declined 6.6%. 

In my report on the recent winter PVF Roundtable meeting in Houston, Supply House Times columnist and ASA Industry Analyst Morrie Beschloss used the signature sign-on line from World War II-era radio commentator Gabriel Heatter to describe the outlook for the industrial PVF industry.

In this high-tech, hustle-and-bustle day and age, a phone call to businesses in many walks of life likely will include dealing with some form of nonhuman interaction.

There appears to be a prevailing preference among wholesale supply houses to favor the generating of additional sales, yet unnecessarily sacrifice a conservative approach to credit and the education of the credit and sales staff. An effort to implement conservative credit measures and educate the staff will be worthwhile in reducing uncollectible receivables.

One of my three beagle dogs recently lost a portion of her ear after an attack by a neighborhood dog. Fenway (my wife’s a huge Red Sox fan; we had another beagle named Boston) had to undergo emergency surgery to save/reconstruct the ear.