At its annual conference in Orlando, Heating, Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) presented several Key Member awards. Most notably, HARDI inducted Royce Henderson, president of Charles D. Jones Co., into the Martin Walshin Permanent Key Group.
At the 2015 Heating, Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) Annual Conference, North American Technician Excellence (NATE) recognized nine HARDI member companies for their outstanding efforts to promote NATE technician certification in the HVACR industry.
Thermostat Recycling Corp. (TRC) announced that Johnstone Supply, US Air Conditioning Distributors, Johnson Supply, and Auer Steel have been named the 2015 Big Man On Planet (BMOP) winners.
I want to write this column about why you should attend the HARDI conference. I’ve written a variant of this column with that slant over the years, even when I was not the editor of HARDI’s official publication.
While the lineup for the Operations & Logistics Focus Conference produced the same high-caliber presenters that one expects from a HARDI gathering, this one had several surprises.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) announced its annual conference theme and keynote speaker lineup, which is designed to encourage distributors to become hungry and inventive and charge at business relentlessly.
Heating, Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) recently held its Operations & Logistics Focus Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, hosting more than 100 attendees seeking ways to advance their operations and six speakers providing insights into increasing profitability, minimizing and mitigating risk, and discovering emerging trends in the industry.
If you are going to travel to Wisconsin, it is best that you go there during the summer months. HARDI members must have been thinking the same thing, as 44 distributors were represented at the Purchasing Focus Conference at the Lake Lawn Resort in Delavan, Wis., in June.
As a recently engaged participant in HARDI activities, including serving as the current Chair of the HARDI Marketing Committee as well as a member of the Emerging Leaders Task Force, I have noticed that on a broad scale, many HARDI member companies seem to assume that HARDI directs the content at its events toward executive level team members.
If I told you that: There is a single, easy-to-do, but possibly painful-to-implement technique that allows you to corral one of your worst time wasters: answering emails every day.