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First Supply promoted Seth DePuy to director of sales and marketing. DePuy has been with First Supply as corporate product manager for its PVF Division over the past 2 1/2 years. He will be based out of First Supply distribution headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin and will report directly to Chairman and CEO Joe Poehling.

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

BNP Media Plumbing Group Editorial Director Mike Miazga caught up with Luxury Products Group Director Jeff MacDowell during the recent IMARK Plumbing Spring Expo in Orlando, Florida.

The plumbing and mechanical industry is changing quickly, and the biggest catalyst of that change is technology.

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).

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 per pick/order.

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 cooperative’s recent annual Distributor and Vendor Conference in Grapevine, Texas, that 2018 purchases within the group rose to record-breaking levels.

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

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 output and input are expressed in the same physical units.