Emerson Climate Technologies Inc. acknowledged its
top-performing wholesalers for outstanding sales performance in 2012 during its
annual National Wholesaler Conference.
How
would you like to streamline the relationship between your business and the
manufacturers/suppliers you work with? A new study examines the partnership
between creator and wholesaler, and proposes methods to facilitate a supply
chain process that is more efficient and affordable for all.
Members
of WIT & Co., a buying group comprised of independent plumbing, heating,
and cooling distributors, recently convened in Phoenix for their annual Fall
Networking Meeting. What transpired at this meeting?
"We believe the WinWholesale business model is unique
in the wholesaling industry," said Rick Schwartz, CEO and chairman,
WinWholesale. What is this successful model that WinWholesale operates on?
"We
were green before it was cool," Riley said. "Then it became cool, and
then people worried about the 'green' in their pockets. It's tough in this
industry when you want to preach sustainability but your contractors are
worried about viability and being in business."
Does
an HVACR distributor play a role in creating demand for the products they stock
and sell? If so, what exact role do they play, and what best-practice measures
may be utilized to achieve ultimate interest? Trustees of the Heating,
Air-conditioning, and Refrigeration Distributors International's (HARDI)
Education & Research Foundation are yearning for an
answer.
I am honored to be HARDI's president, following in the
footsteps of the association's great leaders and becoming the third generation
from G.W. Berkheimer to serve the industry. The 2012 Annual Conference was a
true success and a wonderful setting to inaugurate my leadership with HARDI.
At the close of HARDI's 2012 annual conference, Brian Cobble
accepted the position and became the latest president to lead the association.
Cobble is the president of G.W. Berkheimer Co. Inc. in Portage, Ind., and the
company's involvement with HARDI over the years was a catalyst to his
acceptance of the new association position.
From the first-timer session to the closing ceremonies,
HARDI's 2012 Annual Conference united its membership under one theme,
"Develop Demand, Success is Deliberate." The four days of activity,
sandwiched in between the opening and closing, focused on preparing
distributors for what possibly lies ahead through education, networking, and
more.
When a school such as the 85-year-old West View Elementary
needed an air conditioning retrofit, many engineers would have taken the common
path of specifying conventional products. However, the Pittsburgh-based North
Hills School District hired BDA Engineering Inc. What were the results?
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