According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, heat is the number one weather-related killer in the United States resulting in hundreds of fatalities each year.
Southern Wholesalers Association convention in Panama City Beach, Fla., in late June. As Hira pointed out, to qualify for the Generation Y designation you need to have a birth year between the late 1970s and 1995. My early 1970s birth year bumps me back to the Generation X category (1964-1977).
Jeff Valles and Tom Cohn have delivered strong content at Forte Buying Group meetings for a long time. Valles – Forte’s director of membership services – believed the group’s summer meeting was going to follow a typical schedule; seminars, workshops and receptions. But in the end Valles felt the July meeting in Rosemont, Ill., was the perfect time to shake things up.
Since I sold my showroom business in 1995, I have had the unique
pleasure of working with dozens of wonderful plumbing wholesalers; some of the
very largest and a number of smaller ones, as well.
Severe weather made another appearance at a major wholesale industry
event.
Back in April, tornadoes whipped through the Dallas-Ft. Worth area while WIT’s 2012
Distributor/Vendor Conference was going on just two miles away.
ASA is on pace to surpass a variety of yearly goals.
July 1, 2012
Dear
Industry Colleagues,
Serving as ASA president throughout the course of the past several months
has been quite a learning experience. In addition to having the unique
opportunity of working closely with association leadership and staff, I have
also enjoyed the privilege of representing ASA at various industry events
during this time.
Noah Garson didn’t intend to get into the family plumbing and heating wholesale business. His father, Murray, and uncle, Irvin, started Garson Plumbing Supplies in 1947 after growing tired of working at the post office. They went to the local library and researched possible careers and found the plumbing supply field to be the most desirable.
When Rick Reviglio took over as president and general manager of Western Nevada Supply from his father, Jack, he came to a figurative fork in the business road. “You can either sell more of the same products to the same customers,” Reviglio states, “or you can sell new products to the same customers.”