There was almost no warning when a tornado hit his community on July 19, 2018. The new BrandSource dealer had only been in the business for a couple of months and hadn’t yet weathered a Labor Day sale, much less a natural disaster.
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Schomacker’s Home Galleries, a BrandSource member in Luverne, Minn., is no stranger to in-store events.
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BrandSource member Bekins unveiled its newly expanded and remodeled showroom in Grand Rapids, Mich., last month with the award-winning dealer’s usual aplomb.
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I happened to visit during the snowmobile season and passed many snow machines racing across the landscape. In fact, just a few miles south of their store I passed the racetrack where the World Championship Snowmobile Derby was being prepped for the annual competition, to be held the following week.
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ale Appliance + Lighting, the premium Boston-area BrandSource dealer, opened a third showroom earlier this month.
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Friedmans Appliance has followed many paths since its founding as a small, Oakland, Calif., appliance shop by Charles Friedman in 1922. But from appliance store to microwave specialty dealer, and from franchisor to Bay Area destination for premium appliances, all roads eventually led to AVB/BrandSource, which the company joined 16 months ago. Here’s how they got here.
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At the time of this writing I am in my 11th year of working in the family business and in my sixth year in some type of management role.
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Chris Matson sports a remarkably realistic tattoo of the late, great “Hillbilly Shakespeare” Hank Williams on his right forearm. With Matson’s newfound status as part owner of Heins Appliance, it only seems appropriate to cue up some old Hank and sing, “Move it on over, ’cause the new dog’s moving in!”
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Why is BrandSource member Rob Nicholson making a colossal move into a mammoth store when other independent dealers are downsizing or standing pat? Why is Nicholson rushing in, while others are rushing out?
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Succession and market share are arguably two of the greatest challenges facing independent dealers.
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