Do it Best Group is better for your business. Come see why.
Fall Market is where the co-op does business face to face. More than 1,200 vendors on the floor, Market-only buying deals, and 75 learning sessions across four days in downtown Indianapolis.
For LBM dealers there are two education tracks. Knowledge Central runs Friday in Rooms 231–245 with three complimentary time blocks. The LBM Learning Stage runs Saturday and Sunday on the Market floor, with sessions built specifically for lumber and building materials.
Sunday closes with the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, the CEO address from Dan Starr, and rebate distribution.
Sessions run on the Market floor Saturday and Sunday. Pick a session, add it to your calendar, and it is held for you. Seats are first come, first served.
A featured Central States session focused on a key growth opportunity for LBM dealers. Melissa covers Central States’ capabilities and demonstrates their state-of-the-art quoting tool.
AI is changing how customers find, compare, and choose where to buy. Turn the trust you have already built into more demand, stronger sales, and profitable growth.
How dealers can use the new Trex and Do it Best partnership to create more demand, sell more complete projects, and build a stronger outdoor living business.
Independent dealers do not win by trying to become a smaller big box. Compete through stronger service, local expertise, trusted relationships, speed, and a better customer experience.
An aging workforce and rising builder requirements make takeoffs harder every year. Simpson Strong-Tie offers a fast, affordable option that returns completed takeoffs in under 48 hours.
Use stronger design, product guidance, and customer conversations to grow kitchen and bath sales, and leverage displays and out-of-warehouse products to help customers reach confident decisions.
Delivery trucks aren’t earning dealer profits while they sit in your lumberyard. This session explores how to document your truck turnaround time, break the process into small steps, analyze what should be occurring while the truck is in the yard, and prescribe methods to make each turn faster and more efficient.
An introduction to PricePulse. How the pricing model works, why the data behind it matters, and how this approach gives the industry a stronger read on market movement.
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Stefanie Couch records live episodes throughout Market at the LBM booth. Dealers, vendors and Do it Best leaders sit down for short, unscripted conversations about what is actually working in the yard right now.
Stop by between sessions. Watch a taping, talk to the guests afterward, or get on the mic yourself.
Market works hardest for the people who can act on what they see on the floor.
Set the buy for the year, collect your rebate at the Shareholders’ Meeting, and hear the company’s numbers direct from the CEO.
Walk the floor with your category specialists, fix the operational friction that costs you margin, and take home systems that stick.
Meet the vendors behind your top lines, learn what is closing right now, and bring a sharper story back to the counter.
Nearly every session here lands on what you buy and what it costs. Meet the vendors behind your lines, see the Market-only deals first, and take the PricePulse read on lumber home with you.
Truck turn times, warehouse layout, suggested ordering, kitchen and bath design. Bring the people who run the day, from the yard to the counter to the till.
Deals written on the floor with more than 1,200 vendors, plus the Power Preview on Friday and the Merchandising Preview Saturday morning.
The LBM Industry Update Friday at noon and PricePulse on Sunday give you the pricing picture heading into next year.
Programs & Services experts are on the floor Friday, and every LBM Learning Stage speaker stays for questions.
Select a speaker to see the sessions they are leading.
Full Market schedule. LBM Learning Stage sessions above are in addition to these.
Photos from recent Markets. The floor, the sessions, the general assembly, and the people who make the trip.
The Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis, September 25–28, 2026. Pre-Market training runs Thursday, September 24.
Register through the Market registration site. Knowledge Central sessions are complimentary. The Epicor Eagle and Propello bootcamps on Thursday are $200 per attendee.
Every session on this page has its own booking link. Choose Reserve my seat and pick your time. You will get a calendar invite by email, so the session lands on your calendar with the room and time already on it.
Knowledge Central runs Friday only, in Rooms 231–245, across three time blocks: 8:45–10 am, 10:30–11:45 am, and 1:30–2:45 pm. It covers the full co-op. The LBM Learning Stage runs Saturday and Sunday on the Market floor and is built specifically for lumber and building materials dealers.
Book through the Market registration site. The Indiana Convention Center is linked by skywalks to 12 downtown hotels. A free Market shuttle also runs to the Holiday Inn Select, Holiday Inn Indianapolis Downtown, Staybridge Suites, Sheraton Indianapolis City Centre and Aloft Indianapolis Downtown, picking up at the Convention Center’s Maryland Street entrance.
The Annual Shareholders’ Meeting and CEO Address run 5–7 pm in the Sagamore Ballroom, where Dan Starr delivers a business and financial update. A reception follows in the 500 Ballroom, and current members pick up their rebate. Rebate distribution ends at 6:30 pm.
Yes. Most yards send a mix of owner, GM and sales manager so the floor, the education and the vendor meetings can be covered at once. Each attendee registers individually.
Text DOITBESTMARKET to 203-646-3760.
The LBM Learning Stage seats a fixed number, and sessions are booked one seat at a time. Dealers who wait usually wish they hadn’t.
