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B&K Features

Forte Group has a sales and marketing focus going forward

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Nadia Askar
The Forte Group’s annual conference took place recently in Austin, Texas at the Hyatt Regency hotel. This year’s event drew 310 attendees in total (170 members and 140 vendors). …
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Showroom Trends

Bruce Merrifield: The war on CRaP

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Bruce Merrifield
Amazon’s analytics can identity SKUs on which it “Can’t Realize a Profit” (CRaP). Even with its improving, world’s best fulfillment and last-mile delivery costs, Amazon can’t cover costs on items lower than $15 …
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HVAC

BNP Media's AEC BuildTech ready for blastoff

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Jen Anesi-Brombach
The plumbing and mechanical industry is changing quickly, and the biggest catalyst of that change is technology. …
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Market Sectors

Rep firm Harry Eklof & Associates celebrates five decades

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What does it take to open, sustain and grow a successful manufacturers representative firm over a half-century? …
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Market Sectors

WIT & Co. poised for more success

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Mike Miazga
It was a record-breaking 2018 for the Irving, Texas-based WIT & Co. buying group. WIT Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Brandy Reed told Supply House Times during the …
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Market Sectors

John Siegenthaler: What's not on your utility bill

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John Siegenthaler, P.E.
The measure of a heat pump’s heating performance is called coefficient of performance or COP. It’s the ratio of useful heat output, divided by required energy input, where both the …
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Milestones

Coburn Supply turns 85

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Mike Miazga
Since Beaumont, Texas-based Coburn Supply was named the 2012 Supply House Times Supply House of the Year not much has changed. …

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