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James F. McClister

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6th Annual Most Valuable Product Awards

Congratulations to our 6th Annual MVP Award recipients and thank you to all who submitted products for consideration. This latest class of MVPs represents a new level of innovation...
12th April 2024
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New Safety Recalls for Boilers, Fire Alarms, and Air Fryers

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commissioner today issued recall reports on a small handfull of residential products that, if used, could compromise the safety ...
14th March 2024
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A Timeline of Building Product M&As and Why They Matter

The building products industry has been subject to persisting high levels of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the past several years. According to multiple reports...
7th March 2024
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OSHA's Preliminary List of 2023's Most Frequently Violated Standards

Work-related injuries are not uncommon. In 2021, a US worker died every 101 minutes from a work-related injury, according to OSHA. Of those deaths, 370 were the result of a fall...
28th Nov. 2023
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What I Learned Peeking Behind the Manufacturer/Supplier Curtain

Every year for the past four years, The Farnsworth Group and Venveo have partnered to bring together sales and marketing leaders from the U.S. and Canada’s top building product...
2nd Nov. 2023
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The Product Categories Still Facing Disruption

Across the industry, despite improvements in lead times and availability, there are lingering reports of building product supply chain disruptions—which are, in some cases, admittedly...
28th Sept. 2023
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The 2023 State of Supply Chains

In Tony Matter’s first year as marketing director for M/I Windows and Doors, in 2014, guaranteed lead time for product delivery was one week. To Matter’s recollection, that had...
27th Sept. 2023
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A 2023 Outlook on Building Product Install Volumes

Building product demand in residential construction is likely to be down for the reminder of the year compared to 2022, but the researchers behind John Burns Research and Consulting...
22nd Aug. 2023