The best innovators in distribution "lean into the forces of change and turn them into sources of opportunity," a leader in a  new survey...

By Craig Webb, President, Webb Analytics Years ago, I met an LBM dealer who didn’t use price tags. When a customer brought a product to...

Two months of increased consumer confidence combined with slightly more optimism by contractors suggest that "good times are ahead," The...

A flurry of recent deals--one big, many small--combined with a busy season for store openings to push Webb Analytics' count of...

DEALERS Company Individual Title Location/Notes 84 Lumber Trevor Ellis OSR Augusta, GA 84 Lumber Andrew Hollander OSR Claymont, DE Beacon...

By Craig Webb, President, Webb Analytics Dealers revising their sales forecasts downward to account for unexpectedly sluggish business...

By Craig Webb, President, Webb Analytics As Chief Financial Officer of Builders FirstSource , Peter Jackson is paid to collect, manage,...

DEALERS Company Individual Title Location/Note 84 Lumber Bessy Baltz Marketing Richmond, VA 84 Lumber Alan Blount Sales Rep 84 Lumber...

Heading into the final third of 2024, Webb Analytics' count of LBM locations that now have new owners this year has hit 1,001. There also...

DEALERS DEALERS DISTRIBUTORS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATIONS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS

Heat waves cause the work pace to drop as temperatures and humidity rise, contributing to the slowdown in LBM's pace these days. But it...

Truss and components plants remain hot properties for LBM dealers nationwide, with 178 facilities changing hands or seeing greenfield...

By Craig Webb Tractor Supply's sudden cancellation of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion job roles and goals--efforts that it has...

The E-Commerce manager of Belgium’s biggest home improvement company both alerted and encouraged his peers to plan now for the arrival of...

By Craig Webb President, Webb Analytics More than 1,000 people from 50+ countries came to Rome in mid-June for lessons and ideas on "How...

America's LBM product makers and dealers should pay attention to efforts by The Home Depot, Lowe's, California, and global bodies to do...

The nearly 770 locations that changed hands June 18 when The Home Depot's purchase of SRS Distribution was completed means that--combined...

DEALERS DISTRIBUTORS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATIONS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND INVESTORS

After years in which dealers struggled from crisis to crisis, a slew of public reports and economic indicators suggest we can expect many...

Creating pins for the roughly 770 locations involved in The Home Depot's purchase of SRS Distribution would easily obscure all the other...