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BlueVolt Honors Murray Supply With Knowledge@Noon Award
Winners in five divisions claimed their Knowledge@Noon awards during BlueVolt’s A-D North American Meetings. In the plumbing; pipes, valves, and fittings (PVF); and HVAC divisions, the winning distributor was Murray Supply.
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HARDI Partners to Recycle Thermostats
Members of Heating, Airconditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) in Connecticut are stepping up efforts to collect mercury thermostats through a partnership with the Product Stewardship Institute. The goal is to collect more than 500 mercury thermostats in the Bridgeport area.
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Dakota Supply and Hallowell Partner
Dakota Supply Group partnered with Hallowell International and is now providing homeowners and businesses throughout the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and northwest Iowa access to the manufacturer’s Acadia: Combined Heating and Cooling System.
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Ribbon-Cutting Event
More than 250 customers attended the grand opening of Johnstone Supply’s Knoxville, Tenn., location. The 30,000-square-foot facility features a technician information center for contractors and stocks over 5,000 products.
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Meeting Customer Needs Is More Than Slinging Parts
Distribution management was once dominated by those whose mindsets of how a distributor showroom should look, feel, and function were archaic. Their thought processes may have been appropriate a few years ago, but today they are sadly inadequate. Thankfully times are changing.
by Kevin Morris
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Brauer Opens New Location
Brauer Supply, a 129-year-old family-owned HVAC, thermal insulation, air filtration, and fastener wholesaler opened a distribution center in the Kansas City metro area.
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Upstate Systems Receives Top Honor
Source 1™ HVAC Parts, a division of York/Johnson Controls, named Upstate Systems Inc. the Distributor of the Year for the Northern region.
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Tencarva Adds John Crane Lines
Tencarva Machinery Co. has contracted with John Crane Inc. to add the territories of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia for representation of the John Crane lines of mechanical seals and support systems.
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Progress Supply Moves Headquarters in Ohio
Progress Supply Inc. moved its corporate offices to 1201 Harrison Ave. in Cincinnati. The company purchased a two-story, 8,500-square-foot building formerly owned by Fifth Third Bank.
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Dakota Supply Group Expands by Acquiring Shelter Supply
Dakota Supply Group (DSG) has expanded its product selection in the Twin Cities with the purchase of Shelter Supply, an HVAC distributor formerly located in Burnsville, Minn. Shelter Supply will become part of DSG’s Mechanical Group and will operate out of its St. Paul, Minn., location.
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CertainTeed and Distributors Educate on Duct Design
CertainTeed Corp. recently joined fellow Pennsylvania-based HVAC distributors Air Handling Services Inc. and Riley Sales Inc. to teach local vocational students about energy-efficient HVAC duct design. The course teaches students about duct design and fabrication that follows industry standards.
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HARDI Announces Alan Beaulieu as Association’s Chief Economist
The
Heating, Airconditioning and Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI)
announced Alan Beaulieu, principal and executive vice president of the
Institute for Trend Research® (ITR), has been designated as the association’s
chief economist.
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Gustave A. Larson Awards 2008 PEAQ Winners
Winners
of Gustave A. Larson Co.’s Annual Supplier Evaluation were recently announced.
Honored were Advanced Distributor Products, J.B. Industries, Crystal
Distribution Inc., DuPont Fluoroproducts, and Heatcraft Refrigeration Products.
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Ribbon-Cutting Event
More
than 250 customers attended the grand opening of Johnstone Supply’s Knoxville,
Tenn., location. The 30,000-square-foot facility features a technician
information center for contractors and stocks over 5,000 products.
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Customer Feedback Is an Asset
Your company needs to value the knowledge made available from its customers’ input. Hearing what your customers really think can be intimidating, but burying your head in the sand and choosing to ignore them places the company in a far worse position.
by Kevin Morris
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