Last summer, HARDI held a casting call for the industry’s top performers and rising stars younger than 40 years of age. HARDI members across the country nominated the top talent among wholesalers, manufacturers and affiliated vendors to create the first-ever list of HARDI’s best and brightest.
As the old saying goes, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” When it comes to websites, Google is hands down the biggest beholder out there. If the search engines like what they see, they will show it to others.
Some months back, I needed to visit several well-respected HARDI distributor and manufacturer websites. I’ll refrain from identifying anyone, but I was more than mildly surprised at how lacking several seemed. Sure, it’s easy to point fingers, but when I recognized obvious faux paus … it got me churning mentally.
The Top 50 HVACR distributors listed here represent more than $11.5 billion in HVACR sales. All responding distributors to the survey represented $12.4 billion. Who made the list and what is being said about distributor business and sales?
