I'm Emphatic!!
THE paint industry seems dominated by the likes of Home Depot and Sherwin-Williams, companies which spend a combined $1.5 billion in...
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Mark Lipton
Feb 273 min
A Lie I Can Forgive
I recently christened my hometown of Stamford, Connecticut as the country’s pizza capital and now, the city finds itself ranked 49th on a...
Mark Lipton
Dec 13, 20232 min
Nothing Lasts Forever
Sherwin-Williams recently reported that while revenue for the year was up slightly, THE company had realized a low single digit sales...
Mark Lipton
Nov 22, 20232 min
Of Course I Asked!
A paint dealer reached out recently asking a question which maintains a status among the most frequent I get asked. Though that does not...
Mark Lipton
Oct 4, 20232 min
Old Habits Die Hard!
It turns out that a smooth-driving German sedan my fiancéeic Gaetana gifted the family three-years ago came with some conditions unstated...
Mark Lipton
May 10, 20233 min
How Smart We Talkin'?
Life’s pace returned to an amble last week after several spent in sprint mode; the added velocity a result of our efforts to keep the...
Mark Lipton
Apr 16, 20232 min
#Dan's Secret Revealed!
Recently my doctor shared a list of do’s and don’ts which he recommends for "patients your age." But while I appreciated the medical...
Mark Lipton
Apr 9, 20233 min
Just Another Family Business
When University of Connecticut basketball coach Dan Hurley cut the nets down on his team's championship season last week, he did so from...
Mark Lipton
Feb 5, 20232 min
#Jimmy?
Slipping into the driver’s seat of a Porsche Macan for the first time you’re immediately struck by the SUV’s lack of front-seat...
Mark Lipton
Jan 26, 20232 min
Should I Have Edited that Out?
My daughter Miranda, née Buck Wheat, recently traveled to the mountain-city of San Cristobal de las Casas in southern Mexico. THE...
Mark Lipton
Nov 27, 20223 min
I'll Stop here
When the corn harvest of 1621 proved nutritious enough to feed the 60-pilgrims in his charge, the governor of the Plymouth Bay colony...
Mark Lipton
Sep 24, 20223 min
Heir, and a Spare!
In April of this year my mother, tired of hearing the incessant paint shouts emanating from my upstairs office decided to leave the...
Mark Lipton
Sep 18, 20222 min
Hey, Where Yuh From?
In February of 2022 Twitter introduced a new feature called “safe mode.” THE social media platform hoping to “reduce disruptive...
Mark Lipton
Aug 25, 20223 min
Define Success?
John Wooden is generally considered the greatest collegiate basketball coach of all time. The “Wizard of Westwood” coaching the UCLA...
Mark Lipton
Aug 7, 20223 min
Do These Two Match?
If I listed all the improvements I've noticed in my work-life balance since I sold Tremont Paint in October of 2019, you might think that...
Mark Lipton
Jul 31, 20223 min
Ask Sherwin-Williams!
Recently, my mother told me that she was tired of reading about Dan Calkins. THE old lady defending the Benjamin Moore chief executive...
Mark Lipton
Jun 5, 20223 min
It's Grand!
At more than 185-feet wide, the Bronx’s Grand Concourse is nearly double the width of Manhattan’s iconic Park or Madison Avenues....
Mark Lipton
May 15, 20223 min
Davids, Versus THE Goliaths
Perhaps the greatest upset victory in recorded history was that of Israel’s soon-to-be King David vanquishing the giant Goliath. The...
Mark Lipton
Mar 13, 20222 min
It's All Relative
With his theories of special and general relativity published in 1905 and 1915 respectively, the works of Albert Einstein replaced those...
Mark Lipton
Jan 16, 20223 min
Save Muresco!
In 1991 when I published my first column in the Paint Dealer, it was hand-delivered to the 15,000 dealers and industry-mates who...
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