Lion Plumbing Supply is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, but the milestone is about more than looking back.

Hands-on training remains one of the most effective ways to turn product knowledge into practical skills. 

One such law, known as Proposition 65 (Prop 65), requires that consumers in California be warned of the health risks associated with hundreds of chemicals used in everyday products and environments.

In this industry, results are earned on the front lines: deliveries, customer relationships, safety and service all depend on people. 

The data center surge remains the single most powerful driver of industrial spending worldwide as it enters the back half of 2026.

Renewed tensions in the Iranian-U.S. war resulting from Iranian strikes on U.S. vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and retaliating strikes on Iranian assets have exacerbated crude-oil pricing.

CRM is meant to create efficiency. However, when every department uses it in their own way (or not at all), it has the opposite effect.

If you have been following our reinvention-based series of columns here in The Wholesaler, I have surely been trying to drive home the point that the competitive landscape could not be more different than what it was only a short time ago. 

Engineers are trained to solve problems. We calculate, analyze, design and develop systems that make our communities safer and improve everyday life. Yet some of the most meaningful work engineers do never appears on a set of construction drawings.

Fine print is important. While lawyers often get paid to read the fine print, it is important that clients — individuals and businesses — read it, too. Just as important are the documents referred to or incorporated by reference into the fine print — or what I call the “finer print.”