Endura Acquires W&F Manufacturing
Expanding in the arena of multipoint locking systems, Endura Products Inc. has acquired W&F Manufacturing, a hardware supplier based in Sun Valley, Calif. ...read more |
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Orsino Joins Jeld-Wen
As previously announced with the Onex Corp.'s planned investment in Jeld-Wen, Philip Orsino has
joined the Oregon-based window and door maker as president...read more |
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Schlage Offers Installer App
Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, manufacturer of Schlage electronic
hardware, is now offering a smartphone app designed to support
customers, integrators, dealers and installers at the jobsite...read more |
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Assa Abloy Acquires Paddock Fabrications
The global supplier of door and hardware products has completed its
acquisition of Paddock Holdings, said to be the UK’s largest manufacturer of multipoint locks....read more |
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Four Industry Groups Take on Fenestration Life Cycle Analysis
AAMA, GANA, IGMA and WDMA have joined together to collectively
address "life cycle assessment" of fenestration products, an emerging
demand from the sustainable building community....read more |
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By Christina Lewellen, Senior Editor
A recent blog from the Wall Street Journal
hit close to home for me. The writer is asking readers whether they too
suffer from what she calls her “home improvement inertia.” I think many
of us fall into this category depending on how busy life seems to be at
the moment. I will admit that it recently took a home alarm company
three visits to my house to catch me at a good time (a persistent
salesperson with a patient personality kept me inviting him to try
again), and I’ve been telling my husband for almost a year that we
should replace our front door or consider a storm door so I can see our
kids when they’re playing in the driveway. This
made me think of the window and door industry, and whether it’s
increasingly difficult to get your customers (or potential customers)
their own “inertia” to make time for you? Regardless of whether you’re a
manufacturer, supplier or retailer, is it tricky to carve out time in
your customers’ schedules to present your newest products or special
deals? Has it gotten worse with the economic slowdown? That’s our poll
question for this week.
Please take a moment to post a comment or send me an email to share
your experiences. Are your customers pulled in more directions in
recent years? Is “home improvement inertia”—or perhaps “supplier change
inertia” for those of you on the manufacturing side of things—on the
rise as we’re all trying to squeeze more productivity into a standard
day? |
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Are You Hitting the Road this Fall?
Results suggest about half of you will be hitting at least one show in the coming months....read more |
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