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He's Out of Uniform!
THE country's largest home improvement retailer Home Depot is losing market share in the DIY paint segment most likely to Ace Hardware,...
Mark Lipton
1 hour ago4 min read


I Wasn't
There’s a wide enough range of expectations amongst analysts following Sherwin-Williams to assume that at some point soon at-least half...
Mark Lipton
Aug 204 min read
Shaking My Head
With my feet up on summer I had no reason to stress the drive from Stamford to Cranberry, Pennsylvania and the corporate headquarters of...
Mark Lipton
Aug 134 min read


No More Questions
THE 400 employees of Pittsburgh Paints’ supply chain met with CEO Brian Carson last week in a town hall style event originally scheduled...
Mark Lipton
Aug 63 min read


Diary of a Madman
Heavy metal paladin Ozzy Osbourne died last week, more than 40-years after I warned him that he might. Stuff this in Your Pocket My...
Mark Lipton
Jul 294 min read
As You May Have Heard
On Thursday of last week independent Pittsburgh Paints retailers received an email from representatives at that company announcing a 5.8%...
Mark Lipton
Jul 222 min read


Play it Again Dan!
Conducting a survey of dealer sentiment and creating a document summarizing my findings were the final outputs before summer months...
Mark Lipton
Jul 153 min read


Let Them Eat Paint!
Whether you navigated to this page via my LinkedIn profile , a Google search of my name or by typing this blog’s URL directly into your...
Mark Lipton
Jul 93 min read


Hold This Rope
For the second time this year employees at Pittsburgh Paints have experienced mass layoffs losing as many as 100 coworkers last week...
Mark Lipton
Jul 23 min read
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