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Lion Plumbing Supply is celebrating its 70th anniversary. What started as a plumbing contractor company grew into one of Florida’s leading employee-owned wholesale distributors. Pictured on the cover is President and CEO Paul Gentile, who has helped guide the company for more than half a century.
As the refrigerant market keeps shifting, counterfeit products remain a risk to legitimate refrigerant sellers unless consumers are educated on the dangers of buying counterfeit refrigerants.
For contractors and end consumers, a large price difference on refrigerant can be tempting, especially when costs are putting pressure on operating budgets. However, below-market pricing should also be a warning.
Mentorship alone is no longer enough to help women succeed. Active allyship challenges bias, opens doors and creates real opportunities for advancement.
The PHC wholesale industry — like many skilled trades and their supply chains — has long been dominated by men.
Relationships still matter, but the channel needs better shared data and more disciplined measurement to know where decisions are made, where opportunity exists and where its work actually creates value.
“Spaceballs: The New One” lands next April, 40 years after the first movie, with Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman and Daphne Zuniga all back.
By building trust, communicating strategy clearly, approaching difficult decisions with care and investing in employee capabilities, organizations are better positioned to strengthen performance, adaptability and long-term growth.
In this industry, results are earned on the front lines: deliveries, customer relationships, safety and service all depend on people.
As hyperscalers press ahead with hundreds of billions of dollars in planned U.S. projects, the sector faces mounting constraints from permitting resistance, state-level reviews, grid capacity limits and tightening power-equipment supply.
The data center surge remains the single most powerful driver of industrial spending worldwide as it enters the back half of 2026.
When implemented correctly, the system creates transparency across teams, improves the customer experience and helps sales leaders make faster, more profitable decisions.
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.
Why pricing discipline starts with people, not strategy or systems.
Margin pressure in distribution is nothing new, but prices are being pushed down by intense competition and price transparency, while costs are being driven up by soaring operational, supply chain and labor costs.
Businesses receiving demand letters regarding website tracking tools such as cookies, pixels, tags and beacons should carefully consider their options and proactively audit their websites for compliance with California and other privacy laws.
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.
Rising crude-oil volatility, refinery constraints and major pipeline and data center investments are reshaping demand across construction and energy markets.
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.
Perspective, perceptiveness, pioneering and persistence help people and companies build strong relationships, notice important signals and opportunities, keep innovating and stay committed to continuous improvement over time.
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.