Articles by Mike Miazga

Annual PHCP-PVF distributor survey shows continued positive returns.

First Supply promoted Seth DePuy to director of sales and marketing. DePuy has been with First Supply as corporate product manager for its PVF Division over the past 2 1/2 years. He will be based out of First Supply distribution headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin and will report directly to Chairman and CEO Joe Poehling.

Since Beaumont, Texas-based Coburn Supply was named the 2012 Supply House Times Supply House of the Year not much has changed.

BNP Media Plumbing Group Editorial Director Mike Miazga caught up with Luxury Products Group Director Jeff MacDowell during the recent IMARK Plumbing Spring Expo in Orlando, Florida.

It was a record-breaking 2018 for the Irving, Texas-based WIT & Co. buying group. WIT Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Brandy Reed told Supply House Times during the cooperative’s recent annual Distributor and Vendor Conference in Grapevine, Texas, that 2018 purchases within the group rose to record-breaking levels.

The old message from some allegedly distressed person in a far-flung country asking you to wire them a sum of cash to get them out of trouble. Or the one where they found some long-lost dough that has my name written on it, but first I have to send them my bank-account information.

The recent merger of Omni Corporate Services, Equity Plumbing and IMARK Group came into much clearer focus at the new IMARK Plumbing Spring Expo held in late January in Orlando, Florida.

In one of the most important meetings in its 50 years of existence, the American Supply Association took the next steps forward toward fortifying the industry’s long-term future as it relates to three mega goals.

The recent AHR Expo and KBIS-IBS tradeshows were chock full of smart/connected products. And from conversations with manufacturers of these products there is no slowing down in terms of the amount being produced and the continued evolution of smart/connected technologies.

Identity theft seems like it’s everywhere these days.