An Onslaught of Price Changes Are Coming Your Way. Here’s How to Join In, Take Advantage
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...
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Craig Webb
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
Homeowners' Holding Pattern on Remodel Jobs May Be Ending, Contractor Poll Suggests
Two months of increased consumer confidence combined with slightly more optimism by contractors suggest that "good times are ahead," The...
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Craig Webb
- 4 days ago
- 2 min
LBM's Deals/Open/Closure Count YTD Hits 1,250; 5 States Get 41% of the Action
A flurry of recent deals--one big, many small--combined with a busy season for store openings to push Webb Analytics' count of...
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Craig Webb
- 4 days ago
- 3 min
LBM People in the News, September 2024
DEALERS Company Individual Title Location/Notes 84 Lumber Trevor Ellis OSR Augusta, GA 84 Lumber Andrew Hollander OSR Claymont, DE Beacon...
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Craig Webb
- Aug 14
- 3 min
Amid Slowing Sales and Cheaper Lumber, Dealers Risk Failing to Curb Operating Expenses
By Craig Webb, President, Webb Analytics Dealers revising their sales forecasts downward to account for unexpectedly sluggish business...
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Craig Webb
- Aug 14
- 3 min
Shrinking Homes, Altered States: How Public Companies Are Lowering Their Expectations
By Craig Webb, President, Webb Analytics As Chief Financial Officer of Builders FirstSource , Peter Jackson is paid to collect, manage,...
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Craig Webb
- Aug 14
- 3 min
LBM People in the News, August 2024
DEALERS Company Individual Title Location/Note 84 Lumber Bessy Baltz Marketing Richmond, VA 84 Lumber Alan Blount Sales Rep 84 Lumber...
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Craig Webb
- Aug 14
- 2 min
Number of LBM Facilities Involved in M&A Deals YTD Now Tops 1,000
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...
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Craig Webb
- Jul 11
- 1 min
LBM People in the News, July 2024
DEALERS DEALERS DISTRIBUTORS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATIONS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS
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Craig Webb
- Jul 9
- 3 min
Mother Nature Scorches the Earth, Blind Justice Torches the Rule Book. How Can You Manage?
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...
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Craig Webb
- Jul 9
- 1 min
Dealers' Pursuit of Truss Plants Continues
Truss and components plants remain hot properties for LBM dealers nationwide, with 178 facilities changing hands or seeing greenfield...
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Craig Webb
- Jun 29
- 4 min
Tractor Supply's DEI Turnaround: Anti-Woke Trend or an Exception for 'Life Out Here?'
By Craig Webb Tractor Supply's sudden cancellation of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion job roles and goals--efforts that it has...
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Craig Webb
- Jun 19
- 2 min
Goodbye, Bar Code: A Major Change in Scanning Is Near
The E-Commerce manager of Belgium’s biggest home improvement company both alerted and encouraged his peers to plan now for the arrival of...
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Craig Webb
- Jun 19
- 6 min
9 More Inspirations for U.S. Dealers from the Global DIY-Summit
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...
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Craig Webb
- Jun 18
- 3 min
How Much Greenhouse Gases Do LBM Manufacturers and Dealers Produce? Expect Increasing Pressure to Measure Your Output
America's LBM product makers and dealers should pay attention to efforts by The Home Depot, Lowe's, California, and global bodies to do...
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Craig Webb
- Jun 18
- 2 min
Completion of Home Depot-SRS Deal Makes 2024 LBM's Biggest M&A Market in Years
The nearly 770 locations that changed hands June 18 when The Home Depot's purchase of SRS Distribution was completed means that--combined...
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Craig Webb
- Jun 17
- 1 min
LBM People in the News, June 2024
DEALERS DISTRIBUTORS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATIONS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND INVESTORS
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Craig Webb
- May 15
- 3 min
Paddling Hard but Moving Slow: Increasingly, That's LBM's Outlook for the Rest of 2024
After years in which dealers struggled from crisis to crisis, a slew of public reports and economic indicators suggest we can expect many...
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Craig Webb
- May 15
- 2 min
Aside from the SRS-Home Depot Purchase, LBM's Recent M&A Action Features Deals by BFS, US LBM, Kodiak, R.P., and Gulfeagle
Creating pins for the roughly 770 locations involved in The Home Depot's purchase of SRS Distribution would easily obscure all the other...
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Craig Webb
- May 14
- 1 min
LBM People in the News, May 2024
DEALERS DISTRIBUTORS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATIONS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS
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