Members of Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) strongly believe Congress should repeal the current estate tax. To get their message across, more than 80 HARDI members used their annual Fly-In event to conduct nearly 200 meetings with congressional leaders, sharing that an increase in the estate tax could jeopardize the future of their businesses. What were the results?

Heating, Air-conditioning, and Refrigeration Distributors International’s (HARDI) professional development committee recently announced the launch of its new online education and management system and branch manager certification program.

HARDI recently presented its 2012 HVACR market forecast, which marks the association's initiative to expand on last year's forecast for residential cooling equipment to include heating, refrigeration, and commercial products and markets.

A branch manager is essentially in charge of running a small business for a distributor, and HARDI's new training program will help participants develop the skills to successfully run a branch location.

Heating, Air-conditioning, and Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) announced that North American HVACR average distributor sales were up 11.5 percent in March.

HARDI and its members will soon march upon Capitol Hill to share its legislative concerns through the fifth-annual HARDI Congressional Fly-In, June 4-5 in Washington, D.C.

Heating, Airconditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) recently announced North American HVACR average distributor sales for February 2012 were up 9.6 percent.

The Heating, Airconditioning, and Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) Foundation sponsored three HARDI distributor members and three HARDI manufacturer members to participate in the Optimizing Channel Compensation Consortium, conducted by Texas A&M University on behalf of the Council for Research on Distributor Best Practices.