
(Estimated combined net worth of the distribution company leaders shown below = $36.1 BILLION dollars)

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The promise to global building products distribution company investors of “shareholder value maximization”, a concept that former GE CEO Jack Welch once called “the dumbest idea in the world”, and is, in reality, nothing more than what Princeton University Professor Harry Frankfurt described in his book entitled “On Bullshit”, is failing the institutional and individual investors who placed their trust in the promise. As those investors are quickly coming to understand through our concerted efforts to educate them on the subject (through MarketBeat, FT, and elsewhere), the real and true key to maximizing shareholder value is in first maximizing the value placed on the building products distribution companies contractor customers who, without, building products distributors would have no sales. Until the solution as outlined on the linked website is acted upon, investor returns will continue to dramatically underwhelm and, every year, billions of dollars-worth of needed roofing and related building products will continue to remain unsold.
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