Chestertown, Maryland store is distributor’s 20^th location in Maryland.

Sales at $35 billion; PHCP up 5%.

Steinhouse Supply becomes 117^th Southern location.

 

Connecticut-based distributor enters full-service pressure relief valve testing and repair market.

Northeast distributor acquires New York-based Martisco Corp.

Slight gain in nonresidential building overwhelmed by pullback in residential and non-building starts.

Dakota Supply Group announced a pair of recent hirings. TJ Bedell joins the distributor as regional general manager for its Minnesota region.

Russel Metals recently announced it has entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire all the outstanding shares of City Pipe & Supply Corp., for about $160 million. City Pipe & Supply’s revenues were about $275 million during its last fiscal year.

Over the last 36 months, I had the opportunity to lead strategic planning workshops for associations, buying groups, independent distributors and one manufacturer.

I scan a lot of articles, with one of my research themes being return on investment for analytics, for which there are frustrating results.