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

DEALERS Company Individual Title Location/Notes 84 Lumber Alan Blount OSR 84 Lumber Sarah Hoptry Manager 84 Lumber Russell Ramsey OSR ABC...

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...

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...

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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...