Building a leadership bench is no easy task. Valued employees should be recognized and promoted from within, but what do you do if they aren’t quite qualified for the position?

Short answer: It sure does, but not in the way you may think.

North Central Wholesalers Association 2019 convention’s experiment with a resort destination was a smash hit on a number of fronts.

If you are like me, you read the article titled “How committed is your organization to training” in our ASA News section in the May issue of Supply House Times with a degree of alarm and concern.

When you turn onto Main Street in Alliance, Ohio, the sprawling brick building that comes into view immediately gives the aura of success.

This year’s Emerging Leaders event was hosted by Viega. Attendees were taken to Broomfield, Colorado to tour Viega’s brand-new state-of-the-art training center and get a look at the company’s adjacent state-of-the-art corporate headquarters.

Effective July 8, 2019, Victaulic has purchased Globe Fire Sprinkler. Combined, these two respected companies will have the resources and capabilities to bring exciting new solutions to the fire protection industry around the world, Victaulic notes.

Our industry is built on relationships.

More times than not, when one sticks to its beliefs things end up working out. In the case of the Brentwood, Missouri-based Immerse showroom, a division of St. Louis-based Atlas Supply, sticking to its beliefs has been nothing short of spectacularly successful.

Epicor Senior Product Marketing Manager Tony Corley has seen a bit of shift in the focus of the software company’s distribution customers.