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Meet the Wholesaler: Chris Baker

Delivering on customer service and helping contractors to attack the callback

Robert Beverly

January 27, 2020

Chris Baker looks for ways to cultivate company attitude and customer knowledge to strengthen their own performance.

Meet the Wholesaler: Tom Boutette

Reflecting on new platform value and mixing business with family

Robert Beverly

December 2, 2019

Tom Boutette’s father founded B&B Distribution Centre in 1948. Now, Boutette prepares to take the reins as the chairman of HARDI’s board of directors.

Meet the Wholesaler: Steve Lazar

Know what you have and when to let it go

Robert Beverly

October 21, 2019

Lazar helps distributors and manufacturers turn their surplus inventories into working capital.

Meet the Wholesaler: Keith S. Kruysman

Foregoing bad advice and making the occasional bold move can help a company take wing

Robert Beverly

August 12, 2019

Foregoing bad advice and making the occasional bold move can help a company take wing.

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Meet the Wholesaler: Amber Sheehan-Jelinek

Building her own success in a family business

Robert Beverly

Herb Woerpel

June 3, 2019

Last year, at 34, Amber Sheehan-Jelinek won recognition in Distribution Trends’ “Top 40 Under 40” feature. Younger than most executives but boasting a longer tenure than many, she has taken the road less traveled in a couple of ways.

Meet the Wholesaler: Lauren Roberts

Herb Woerpel

April 29, 2019

The employees at cfm work harder because they have more skin in the game. They have a truly vested interest in the long-term success of their company.

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2019 HARDI Chairman Discusses His Past, Present, and Future

Herb Woerpel

March 4, 2019

My advice to myself would be to make sure that I paint a clear and honest picture of the situation for our people and to trust in the power of a common goal and the abilities of the excellent people in the company. I’d tell myself to worry a whole lot less and enjoy the ride a lot more.

Troy Meachum - ACR Supply Co. - Distribution Trends

Meet the Wholesaler: Troy Meachum

Exiting HARDI chairman deems 2018 'a Blessing'

Herb Woerpel

December 21, 2018

It’s our goal to leave a legacy so that on the day our team members retire, they can look back and say their lives were better off because they were a part of the ACR family.

Doug Riley of The Thos. Somerville Co. - Distribution Trends

Meet the Wholesaler: Doug Riley

A Meteoric Rise from the Bottom to the Top

Herb Woerpel

November 12, 2018

The Thos. Somerville Co. was founded in 1861. Doug Riley started with the company as a temporary worker in 1985. His meteoric rise reached its ceiling in 2015, when he was named CEO and president.

Paul Neustadt: A ‘Master’ of His Trade

Herb Woerpel

March 8, 2018

Back when I started, we always tried to do what was right for our customers and employees. That holds true today. We’ll absolutely put ourselves in our employees’ and customers’ positions and use that as a sounding board for whether we’re doing the right thing.