Lehman Pipe & Plumbing Supply is a throwback to the days of 99% fill rates and handshake business deals.
By old-fashioned, I mean Miami's Lehman Pipe & Plumbing Supply is a single location, family-owned wholesaler still believing in the quaint notion that inventory is the name of its game. No dielectric union, no specification valve, none of what company president Dennis Lehman refers to as "the crazy stuff," is too obscure to stock in depth. They fill some 75,000 sq. ft. of inside warehouse space and a giant yard with PVF materials of every size, shape and composition imaginable for their South Florida commercial building marketplace, along with a sizable export business. In today's era of central distribution, who can fathom an independent local supply house stocking 170 different sizes of copper reducing tees? How can a $20 million company invest $3.5 million of it stocking the shelves?