Independent PHC distributors and contractors feel disadvantaged, mulling sellouts

Beschloss reports that independently owned plumbing-heating-cooling-piping distributors and mechanical contractors feel federal agencies and financial institutions favor large corporations, and that this frustration has engendered talk of sellouts or liquidation by multigenerational ownership.

“Unfortunately this has engendered expressions of sellouts or liquidation by multigenerational leadership that have provided the vast plumbing-heating-cooling-piping industry with a nationwide independent marketing leadership matrix, whose decades of experience and interface with customers and prospects will forever be lost if and when these “titans of industry” depart from the scene.”

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