Yard & Garden Magazine

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• Halfway Point Check-In: Distributors Talk 2012 Sales

  Distributors share how their dealers' sales are performing at the halfway point of the year.

  Kerry Malkerson Marr BrothersTerritory: TX, LA, OK, AR, MS, NM It’s a little better than last year because we have had a little rain, but it’s still not back to where it was before it stopped raining. Dealers are not placing any inventory orders, but buying as they need it. I think they...

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• Weather You Like it or Not

  A mixed bag of weather events this year has left dealers guessing, and some showrooms fuller than they ought to be at the end of the peak season.

  In order to make green in the Green Industry, both dealers and landscape contractors alike depend on the weather. The problem with that is that the weather is never dependable. The typically unpredictable weather has proven to be even more so this year, with light snowfalls, an early spring...

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