Distributors

HARDI: An HVACR Distributor's Competitive Advantage

HARDI provides unparalleled educational offerings to help you and your employees' professional development.

HARDI is the single voice of HVACR distributors within the industry and in government affairs.

HARDI's advocacy efforts provide these competitive advantages for member companies:

ensures distributor interests are considered by Congress and regulatory agencies;
has the only Congressional Fly-In specifically for HVACR wholesale distributors;
promotes the value HARDI distributors deliver to manufacturers and contractors;
represents distributors on various alliances and coalitions;
helps to shape policies that will benefit HARDI distributors;
provides access to new products by promoting North American distribution to foreign manufacturers.

HARDI provides the only tools for distributors to benchmark their sales and profitability with the general HVACR distribution market.

Distributors of HVACR equipment, supplies, refrigerants, hydronics, and controls can:

benchmark their monthly sales, days sales outstanding (DSO), and inventory levels through the HARDI T.R.E.N.D.S. program provided by HARDI's Chief Economist at the Institute for Trends Research (ITR);
receive regionalized HVACR industry-specific quarterly economic forecasts broken down by individual states also produced by HARDI's Chief Economist and ITR;
compare detailed profitability and operational performance with the HVACR distribution aggregate with the Annual Profit Report provided by The Profit Planning Group (PPG);
benchmark employee compensation with the bi-annual Compensation Survey also through PPG;
contribute to and receive HVACR market forecast surveys and reports produced through a partnership with JP Morgan's Equity Research team.