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  • Between a rock and a hard place
    Glaziers, retailers look to pass on higher costs, even as competitors push bids lower
    July 26, 2011
    Cost increases have dominated the headlines the last several months, with glass and metal suppliers upping prices in response to rising raw material and operating costs. 

  • Mission possible
    A well crafted mission statement can positively impact your bottom line
    September 28, 2010
    Mission statements are a paradox: the most popular management tool of the past 25 years and yet often the least respected. Chances are, as a retail glass company, you have one—framed nicely in the lobby perhaps—but can you recite it? Can your employees?You might be tempted to dismiss a mission statement as mumbo-jumbo, but more than two decades of studying business success and failure has taught...

  • Increasing the value of your glass business
    June 3, 2009
    Value creation begins with alignment of the stakeholders surrounding your company.

  • Closer look: Card check or not
    Proposed legislation of the Employee Free Choice Act faces stiff opposition among glass and glazing shop owners
    June 1, 2009
    The news media has been abuzz with the Employee Free Choice Act, aka, the card check bill, the last few months. As of mid-April, the legislation--that would make it easier for unions to organize workers--lacks the 60 votes needed to clear the Senate. Business groups and unions are at odds regarding the bill.In an article in The Washington Post, the president of AFL-CIO, John J. Sweeney, said...

  • Valuing your glass business
    April 16, 2009
    In spite of the turbulent economic environment, shareholders and operators of glass retailers and distributors, glazing contractors, and auto glass replacement and repair shops need to think about value-creating strategies to weather the business cycle and grow. Let’s start with how to think about valuation, and then we will explore the levers to pull to create more.The first step in...

  • Showers Online software
    April 2, 2009
    Showers Online, CRL’s exclusive frameless shower glass size program, provides glass professionals with an efficient method for calculating final glass sizes for specific projects. Users can design almost any custom enclosure, produce more quotes, train more employees to handle shower customers, make professional presentations, and get accurate glass sizes immediately.

  • Exclusive interview with Russell J. Ebeid
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    April 1, 2009
    Q&A with the president of Glass Group, Guardian Industries Corp., Auburn Hills, Mich.  Ebeid Read related articles:Ebeid: Prepare for a new glass industryEbeid: Renaissance of a new, green glass ageState of solar glass in GermanyInvesting in solar: Potential and risks for U.S. glass industryHow are you keeping employees' spirits up amidst these tough economic conditions and the...

  • Is there room to be 'green' in the current economy?
    February 27, 2009
    The upheaval in the financial markets has created a pile of new pressures for business owners and managers. But amid a re-ordering of priorities, is anyone still thinking about the commitment to become more environmentally conscious?

  • Customer feedback, part two
    Five final rules to work by
    February 1, 2009
    Customers are the lifeline of a business. Last month, we took a look at the first five rules business owners should follow to obtain customer feedback. Here, we’ll examine the final five.

  • Poker play
    Know when to hold `em; know when to fold `em
    July 22, 2008
    This article is first in a series that will explore how to run a successful shop, and will touch on various aspects of managing a business including: when/how to expand, downsize, sell your business; decide on location, whether to rent or buy; when to add new products, services and people; when to diversify; and when to change name, logo and marketing materials.
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    In April 2011, the U.S. International Trade Commission instituted antidumping and countervailing duties on aluminum extrusion products from China, following a Department of Commerce investigation that determined 29 Chinese companies dumped some $500 million worth of extruded aluminum products into the U.S. market last year. According to the DOC, the Chinese exported their aluminum extrusions to...
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  • Between a rock and a hard place
    Cost increases have dominated the headlines the last several months, with glass and metal suppliers upping prices in response to rising raw material and operating costs. 
    Price hikesIn letters sent to customers this summer, glass and metal suppliers alike pointed to increasing raw material, fuel and operating costs as the reasons behind the price increases that took effect this June. (Visit GlassMagazine.com to see which suppliers raised prices and by how much.) Several industry representatives say prices have been deflated for years, and the increases were...