October 2021

This year, The Granite Group celebrates its 50th anniversary. With the company’s drive for team member engagement and empowerment, TGG invests in employees for their success, which in turn grows the company. Pictured above is President and CEO Bill Condron (second from left) surrounded by team members, who, along with all TGG employees, embody the company’s dynamic people-first culture.

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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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2021 PHCP Millennials On The Move

Spotlighting 10 young professionals in the plumbing, heating, cooling, and piping industry

September 1, 2021

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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.

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Q&A with Spencer Brown, Director of Sales, Pfister

Faucet company launches ‘American Plumber Stories,’ to highlight plumbers throughout the US.

September 3, 2021

Steve Smith

Pfister launched its ‘American Plumber Stories’ that features plumbers throughout the US.

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High-Efficiency Water Heating for a (Nearly) Post-COVID World

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated some of the shifts already in motion toward higher-efficiency water heating equipment.

July 2, 2021

When the coronavirus pandemic led to greater hot water usage (and higher energy bills), it accelerated some of the shifts already in motion toward higher-efficiency water heating equipment.

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Q&A with David Brakenwagen, CEO of Leonard Valve

Making installers, specifiers and distributors jobs easier is where the biggest opportunities are for the plumbing manufacturer.

September 3, 2021

Steve Smith

For more than a century, Leonard Valve Co. has supplied stakeholders in the plumbing industry with mixing valve technology for numerous commercial applications.

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.