By country, same-store sales in the United States grew 4 percent, Canada was up 5 percent and Mexico decreased 5 percent.

With these two acquisitions, Core & Main has completed nine total since becoming an independent company in August 2017.

The average annualized sales growth for the 12 months through September 2019 is 7.4 percent.

During the interview, Liberty Pumps President Robyn Brookhart and CEO Charlie Cook discuss the company's origins, culture and growth, including the evolution of its products. 

Senators John Kennedy (R-LA) and Thomas Carper (D-DE) have introduced the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act (AIM Act) along with 12 other original bipartisan cosponsors which would give the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a limited grant of authority to phasedown the use of HFCs over the next 17 years.

The distribution technology provider will be on hand to engage with distributors about today's marketplace challenges and discuss how Inform's leading-edge ERP, eCommerce and Warehouse Management helps showroom distributors navigate disruption.

Roughly 250 reps and wholesalers attended, a 25 percent increase from 2018.

Founded in 1982, IVI is a quality service company engaged in the repairs of all types of valves, hydraulics and pressure relief valves.

The company received the Transformation and Operations Excellence Award at the 2019 Salute to Manufacturing Awards.

Nick LeJeune has been named vice president, sales and marketing, and Don Whitman has been named vice president, general manager of the company's Richmond, Virginia-based industrial watertube division.