Articles by Jim Olsztynski

The surprise is that Home Depot kept them alive so long.

Recent conversations with industry people naturally revolved around the sorry state of our economy in general and construction-related markets especially. Here are some particulars that are on the minds of

A distinctly un-corporate culture characterizes this relative upstart.

The recession will eventually end, and now’s the time to get ready.

Yeah, I know, this blog is self-serving as all get out. Be that as it may, it still makes not a lick of sense to trim advertising budgets when sales

The run-up in copper prices in recent years was a windfall for our industry’s tubing producers and distributors. But what went way, way up  is coming down just as hard

The payoff is large, though hard to measure.

"All I want for Christmas is, well, a bunch of stuff," writes Editor Jim Olsztynski in his letter to Santa.

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