John Carlson was the primary Editor of CONTRACTOR—a title that morphed over the many years to Chief Editor/Editor-in-Chief as employees expanded, then to Editorial Director as enterprise fashions modified, and even briefly to Content material Director because the model staked out new territory on the World Large Net.  

Following Carlson got here Seth Shepard, who directed editorial operations virtually 30 years till his retirement in 1984. Over time the editorial torch handed in flip to John Schweitzer, Bob Miodonski, Robert Mader (extra about each Bobs later on this function) and eventually, in 2018, to myself.

Over time CONTRACTOR has featured columns by such business legends as Dan Holohan, Matt Michel, Dave Yates, Mark Eatheron, Al Schwartz, Pat Linhardt and numerous others. Whereas my sympathies are clearly on the editorial facet, the persevering with success of the model has been the work of publishers together with William Adams and Invoice Everham, of our a number of artwork administrators (together with our present one, Susan Lakin), our gross sales workforce, assist employees and so many extra.

It has been a exceptional 70 years, and all made doable due to you, our readers. We hope to maintain bringing you the information, insights and skilled know-how that may allow you to run a greater enterprise for many years to return.

TIMELINE

Fifties

The primary challenge of CONTRACTOR is revealed in January of 1954. Initially The CONTRACTOR, it prints twice a month at a value of fifty cents a problem.

Plumbing Producers Worldwide (then generally known as the Plumbing Brass Institute) is based (additionally in 1954).