Hazmasters was built on listening to its customers, knowing the safety business, providing excellent service, and quality products. Focusing on its customers has allowed the company to grow and expand its facilities.
W.W. Grainger Inc., one of the nation’s biggest sellers of industrial supplies, plans to open six new locations in the New York area by the end of 2008 as part of an ongoing effort to expand its reach into local markets.
Independent market research on PPE is hard to come by. But, there's good news: In August 2006 Clear Seas Research of Troy, Mich., conducted a comprehensive study of more than 1,200 safety professionals and PPE product users. A total of 279 industry pros completed the section on eye/face personal protection — one of the hottest PPE markets in safety.
In March, OSHA helped the marketing departments of safety distributors everywhere by fingering approximately 14,000 employers that have injury and illness rates at their work sites higher than average. Do these firms know where their nearest safety distributor is?
Well, the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament is history and once again American productivity took a significant hit. Some employers say that work time lost to Web surfing, e-mail and phone calls is a small price to pay for stronger morale, less turnover and higher productivity.
How do we change the way we’ve been trying to change? Here’s a theory: Besides top-down vision and the will to change, we also need to have a “corporate culture” that “enables” change to happen.
A behind-the-scenes battle is raging worldwide over reforms in China’s labor law. The fight indicates the political barriers blocking development of the vast potential market for personal protective gear and other safety products in China.
Several years ago one of our upper leadership persons came to me stating he wished he had been with us from the start. On board all but a few of those years, he said he wished he would have experienced ”those fun, exciting, beginning years of building the business foundation..."
I know the idea that your customers will judge your catalog by its cover is in direct conflict to the life lesson your mother spent so many years trying to instill into you — you can’t judge a book by its cover, right?
The single-family housing market is gliding toward a soft landing in 2006, as rising interest rates, affordability issues and a reduced role for investors/speculators contribute to a softening in demand, according to economists at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Construction Forecast Conference held in April, and reported in the magazine Shelter.
The recent acquisition of Hughes Supply by Home Depot set a high bar for valuations of distribution companies. Now may be the best window ever for selling a distribution company.
