Texas Deep Freeze Impacts Plastics Industry
Though Confer Plastics in New York state is 1,200 miles away, the severe winter weather that hit Texas in mid-February…
Episode #56, Helping Retailers through Forced Change with Ted Lawrence from Poolcorp
Ted Lawrence, the corporate category retail manager at Poolcorp, brings a global perspective to hot tub and swimming pool retail…
Episode #55 from Hot Tubs Direct to an Automatic Cover Lifter with Andy Tournas
Andy Tournas, founder of ThermoSpas, Hot Tub Products and the International Hot Tub Association, joins us on the podcast today…
Not Quite the Clean Slate
We certainly didn’t expect the ball drop on January 1 would make the problems of 2020 disappear, but I’m not…
Episode #54, The Long Game with Ben Poggemiller
Ben Poggemiller from Urban Life Pools & Hot Tubs joins us again to share what’s changed in his business since…
Episode #53, A Two-Year Building Project, Opening During Covid, with Ronak Shah
(left to right) Neal Patel, COO; Nimisha Patel, CIO; Zena Shah, CFO and HR director; Ronak Shah, president and CEO…
Episode #52, The Rep Life with Dennis Gentek, Jacuzzi/Sundance
Dennis Gentek Dennis Gentek has pretty much seen it all in the hot tub industry. His 32-year career in the…
Episode #51, Design with a Purpose, with Vic Walker and Allen Kalkomey from CMP
Allen Kalkomey We’ve all become keenly aware of supply chains in 2020 — from toilet paper, to groceries, to all the…
Episode #50, The PHTA’s Strategic Action Plan, with Sabeena Hickman
When Sabeena Hickman joined the newly formed PHTA in the fall of 2019, she thought she knew what her biggest…
Episode #49, Surviving a Pandemic as an OEM with Jerry Greer from Core Covers
How he went from being a wild kid, to a star Yellow Pages salesman, to hot tub industry entrepreneur. For…
Star Power
You will be hard pressed to find a hot tub retailer in the world that isn’t having their best year….
Southern Leisure Spas & Patio
Finding out that your child has a life-threatening health condition is every parent’s worst nightmare. A couple days after Cole…