Harrison
Publishing House, Inc
A Brief History
by
David F. McPhaul
Harrison Publishing
House traces its beginnings to a day in 1912 when William
A. Bradford, masterplumber, first published the
Bradford Price Book. The "Bradford" updated
and
expanded over the years, remains a popular choice among
Harrison's customers. In fact there are third generation
subscribers to the "Bradford."
William A. Bradford
In the 1960's, Harrison Publishing House
introduced the National
Mechanical Contractor Estimator, a book designed to
meet the requirements of larger mechanical contractors.
Shortly afterward, Harrison Publishing House introduced
the MacEwan
Market Manual, which is intended for wholesaler use
and publishes discounts to wholesaler net for many products.
The 1970's saw the introduction of computerized data processing.
Harrison Publishing House was the first publishing company to work on developing uniform
codes, and used this foundation to build one of the industry's largest data bases.
Harrison Publishing House continued
bringing appropriate books to market by offering the National
Sales Guide in the 1980's, dedicated to the needs of
the larger service contractors. In the 1990's Harrison Publishing
House began publishing the National
Plumbing and Mechanical Procurement Guide. The guide
is intended for municipal bidding, has a simple format,
and shows the manufacturers' list pricing.
During this period, Harrison Publishing
House developed and marketed estimating and billing software.
At the same time, we began working with other software developers,
producing data
bases to work with those programs, as well as custom
data bases for more specialized applications.
About ten years ago, Harrison Publishing House
began researching the needs of electrical contractors.One
result of this study is our newest book, the Harrison
Electrical Price and Labor Manual. This manual presents
both buy and sell pricing with reliable labor units for
thousands of commonly used electrical items.
A second outcome of this work,
TIP, or Trade Information and Pricing,
is a true Windows price book and lookup package. TIP has
been in development for three years and promises to be the
tool that should solve all your product information needs
for Electrical
or Plumbing
Finally, welcome to our new web site! In order to serve more
customers more efficiently, we have implemented several new features to further assist
tradesmen.
Our subscribers are now regularly updating their software,
both HPH and
others, using our Internet based updating system called
e-pricing. In this fashion, you can receive new pricing
information almost as quickly as we do!
After installing and registering the download you may view current
price changes, download those you want, and apply them to your estimating or inventory
data base(s). e-pricing - Implement price changes immediately!
Our staff has assembled data on over
1000
manufacturers including email and website links. Want
to get in touch with a manufacturer quickly? Just bookmark
our site.
You can view the latest improvements to estimating
packages, as well as the latest
price revision that Harrison has provided.
We continue to discover new technologies and invest in
the assets necessary to remain the Leader in providing current and accurate information to
the trades, very quickly!
Call us:
1-800-890-0820
Or visit our contact
page to email us.
Thank you for visiting!


HARRISON PUBLISHING HOUSE
INCORPORATED
800-890-0820
603-444-0826 FAX
hph@hphguide.com
P.O. BOX 320 - 995 INDUSTRIAL PARK ROAD
LITTLETON, NH 03561-0320
©1999 Harrison Publishing House,
Inc.
Last Modified: July 20, 1999
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