William P. Stengel will be President and Chief Operating Officer, and Christopher T. Galla will be Senior Vice President and General Counsel.
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Robert Hoke will work at Viking as its new eMobility Specialist, while Jen Pytleski will take the role of Enterprise Account Executive.
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The end customer increasingly desires to buy from you like they do in their everyday personal life. If you aren’t rewriting your strategy to meet the needs of the self-service customer, you are in danger of falling behind.
Jerrel Flatt recently worked for Apex Tool Group, LLC and prior with Colony Hardware, Werner Co. and Newell Rubbermaid.
Vin Zachariah will be responsible for process improvement across the company and developing execution strategies to drive scale and growth.
Omnichannel provides a seamless customer journey across channels, so your customers don’t have to bounce from department to department trying to place an order or ask a question.
We share new comments from distributors regarding whether they plan to use new or unique strategies to recruit and retain employees. It illustrates that some are faring much better than others.
The Crescent Electric Supply leader tells us how employee engagement has kept the distributor pointed at its customer-based North Star.
Whether you attended or not, get a general recap of what happened at MDM's Sept. 25-27 SHIFT conference and the value it provided to the distribution community.
If your 2023 annual planning sessions use the same metrics, scorecards and templates from even a few years ago, you may be falling behind.
We chat with Dee Merriwether, CFO of Grainger, which took the top spot on MDM’s Top 2022 Industrial Distributors list. Our conversation covers the MRO giant’s risk mitigation, pricing strategy, how analytics have shaped its digital offerings and more.
The company announced that Leigh Dobbs has been named chief human resources officer, effective Sept. 6.
We dive into the data from a new survey that compares results between distribution candidates and employees with hiring managers.
The electromagnetic components manufacturer said Ken May has been named corporate vice president and chief technology officer.
The association says it has hired ABB Optical Group and DHL executive Bart Tessel as chief innovation officer.
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