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Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner!
If you are an independent paint or hardware retailer please click here before reading this week’s blog, thank you. It’s been more than...
Mark Lipton
Mar 263 min read


Play it Loud!
After three-weeks on the road it was Netflix and chill with my fiancéeic last weekend, the longest traveling of my career forcing the...
Mark Lipton
Mar 193 min read


Layoffs at Pittsburgh!
There were layoffs at Pittsburgh Paints’ corporate headquarters last week, the end of anticipation for an unlucky few. Riffed were as...
Mark Lipton
Mar 112 min read


GREAT Question!
Executives from American Industrial Partners gathered in Florida last week to meet the team at Pittsburgh Paints, including newly...
Mark Lipton
Feb 272 min read


Something (Else) Someone Told Me
On the February 6th episode of Mad Money , the show’s host Jim Cramer opined on the current share price of Sherwin-Williams stock; THE...
Mark Lipton
Feb 193 min read


Something Someone Told Me
I spent Monday and Tuesday this week in Chicago, passing the hours in a boardroom strategizing a path for a client’s innovative new...
Mark Lipton
Feb 122 min read


Irick's Folly
In an ongoing effort to monetize their investment the new owners of Pittsburgh Paints offer their assets for sale to anyone with...
Mark Lipton
Feb 43 min read
Better Left Unsaid
It’s been nearly two-months since American Industrial Partners completed their acquisition of PPG’s $2 billion architectural coatings...
Mark Lipton
Jan 292 min read


Can Someone Check on Dan?
Had I made a list of my top-ten most widely read blogs at the end of 2023 each post would have shared the same subject, Benjamin Moore...
Mark Lipton
Jan 223 min read
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