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

Distributor made seven acquisitions in first half of fiscal 2019.

 

MORSCO parent company sales up 104%.

Odessa Winlectric earns top honor.

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 old message from some allegedly distressed person in a far-flung country asking you to wire them a sum of cash to get them out of trouble. Or the one where they found some long-lost dough that has my name written on it, but first I have to send them my bank-account information.

Buying/marketing group also announces completion of IDI merger.

Buying/marketing group recently was awarded a Delaware Valley Top Workplaces 2019 honor by the Philadelphia Inquirer.