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Showroom Excellence

Hope

Your employees are drowning in the waters of supply delays and rude customers. Offer them a helping hand and a reason to keep swimming.

October 5, 2021

Jeff MacDowell

Right now, besides sourcing product, finding and keeping employees is one of the largest problems we face.

Inventory Management

Stop Struggling and Start Prioritizing Mental Health

One of the best things senior leaderships can do right now is address the languishing state of the employee base.

October 5, 2021

Jason Bader

If I can sum up my collective emotion over the past several months, I would describe it in one word — meh.

The Beschloss Perspective

U.S. Banks Expect Big Profits Ahead

Banks are reporting second-quarter earnings 40 percent higher than the same period a year ago.

October 5, 2021

Morris Beschloss

While the economic recovery maintains growing profits, major U.S. banks anticipate one of their biggest profit years ahead — such as major players J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. and Citigroup.

PVF Market Overview

Price Increases, Supply Chain Woes Continue to Plague PVF Industry

U.S. manufacturers face a backlog that has been growing all year, with core capital goods orders climbing to a record high of $231 billion.

October 5, 2021

Stephen Letko

October marks the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2021 with the PVF industry continuing to deal with many uncertainties.

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The Granite Group

The Granite Group celebrates a half-century of service and teamwork that define the company and its culture.

October 5, 2021

Ruth Mitchell

Kevin Condron grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. While attending the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, he met a local woman named Clare Kennedy and they later married in 1968.

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Project Growth Accelerates, But Headwinds Remain

As of July, spending in North America was up 16 percent from a year earlier. In the United States alone, spending was up 18.7 percent.

October 5, 2021

This year has been a follow-up to the global slowdown and economic recession brought about in 2020 by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Go on the Offensive

Tradition and complacency are poor foundations for strategy.

October 5, 2021

Over the past several years, B2B customers have been changing how and where they source products.

HARDI Distributors Report 26.4 Percent Revenue Increase in August

October 4, 2021

The association also reports the average annual sales growth for the 12 months through August 2021 is 18.7 percent.

IAPMO Concludes 92nd Annual Education and Business Conference

October 4, 2021

IAPMO's conference once again gathered experts in the plumbing and mechanical fields with in-the-trenches inspectors and manufacturers in a spirit of cooperation toward the advancement of the Uniform Codes.