Jack Gerard was the keynote speaker at the winter PVF Roundtable meeting in Houston this past February.

The annualized growth, the group noted, has been between 6% and 7% throughout 2014.

As the pundits, analysts, financial experts and self-styled business meteorologists gaze into their 2015 economic crystal balls, all seem to realize the 50% drop in oil prices has opened the door to dire consequences, whose fate has yet to be determined.

Kevin Murphy cited a projected 3.25% growth in gross domestic product, falling unemployment and an upward trend in consumer confidence

Energy infusion.

More with less.

Q4 momentum builds to rapidly expanding 2015 launching pad.

Wayne, Pa.-based Affiliated Distributors reported 8% growth across all its divisions in the third quarter of 2014.