By Craig Webb, President, Webb Analytics As we enter the final days of True Value Co.'s  existence, how you feel about the distributor's...

By Craig Webb, President, Webb Analytics Employee time is money. So is the label paper used for printing price tags. When Peter Brown...

DEALERS Company Individual Title Location/Notes Arizona Building Supply Kevin King Manager Part of US LBM Beacon Benjamin Kershaw FP&A...

Webb Analytics counts 143 acquisition transactions in construction supply so far this year, just one deal short of what we saw in all of...

Some of True Value Co.'s newest filings in its bankruptcy case give a sense of the company's expenditures and priorities before it...

By Craig Webb, President, Webb Analytics A lending group that had fought True Value Co.'s plan to sell itself to Do it Best announced...

By Craig Webb True Value Co. and its lenders must start in earnest to settle their differences over how the lenders' money is used while...

By Craig Webb, President, Webb Analytics True Value Co. owed PNC bank and other lenders at least $238.2 million when it filed for...

By Craig Webb, President, Webb Analytics Earlier this summer, Webb Analytics asked building material dealers nationwide to rate four...

This page will be a repository for updates and links to articles in this ongoing story . December 16 Do it Best Begins the Tricky...

By Craig Webb, President, Webb Analytics Talk about headwinds! For LBM dealers lately, business conditions are getting progressively more...

The nation's busiest state for home building saw the biggest deal since mid-September when US LBM acquired Texas Tool Traders , a tool...

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By Craig Webb, President, Webb Analytics Do it Best's planned takeover of True Value's 4,500 members and $1.5 billion in buying power...

By Craig Webb, President, Webb Analytics They might have had quite different audiences, but the Home Improvement Research Institute’s ...

A European-led effort by DIY centers that also includes The Home Depot  and Lowe's  launched Sept. 27 "Make It Zero," a plan and support...

Texas’ population is growing so fast that developers fear municipalities will slow or even stop construction of new homes, making...

Expect homebuilding in Florida to continue its rapid pace so long as regulators, Mother Nature, lawyers, and worker shortages don’t make...

The Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project has just  published  a set of nine interactive charts showing how household finances in the...

“I don’t know if there’s any secret sauce” to  ABC Supply’s  growth to a $20 billion company, President and CEO Keith Rozolis says. But...