Articles Tagged with ''distributors''

ASA is proud to announce these companies have joined as its newest members.

Bill Bootz, owner of Houston-based industrial PVF master distributor Team Alloys, didn’t know much about the business when he first started as an outside salesman back in the 1980s. “My first sales call to SMS of Texas was on Sept. 18, 1989,” he recalls in vivid detail. “They told me my price was higher than domestic. I said, ‘What’s domestic?’ I knew absolutely nothing about the business — completely zero.”

Trends and forecasts always are frequent topics of discussion in the PHCP/PVF industry. That definitely holds true for the master distribution end of the equation. A group of master distribution executives recently spoke with Supply House Times on a variety of topics related to their companies’ roles in the industry.

One of the main highlights of Evolve ’13, HARDI’s annual conference held at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix late last year, was the presentation of results from the Demand Qualification Project, a landmark research project launched in an effort to better understand distributors’ roles in the demand creation process.

Three years ago, we presented a proposal for distributor research on the trends and usage of vendor rebates.  

Wholesalers Association of the North East will host its Executive Leadership Conference June 11-13, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge overlooking Boston.

The Equity Plumbing buying group celebrated its fifth anniversary earlier this year and recently held its well-attended first annual national meeting.

Beginning with the January 2014 issue of Supply House Times, five prominent ASA distributor members will once again be featured in a two-part, in-depth interview.

2013 will be the second consecutive year that ASA has achieved net membership growth, a milestone not reached in decades.

Affiliated Distributors Chairman and CEO Bill Weisberg sees a bright future for the Pennsylvania-based buying group. And he’s taken steps to ensure the group’s long-term viability.