Merchants Distributors, LLC
Candy Bowman is an experienced professional in procurement and logistics, currently serving as a Deli/Bakery Buyer at Merchants Distributors, LLC since February 2023. Prior to this role, Candy worked at Performance Food Group in various capacities, including Buyer for non-foods, chemicals, and beverages, and as a Logistics Coordinator, streamlining transportation and delivery processes. Additional experience includes serving as an Operations Manager at Carrigan & Sons Trucking Inc. and holding multiple buyer and pricing roles at Merchants Distributors from May 2003 to September 2016. Education was completed at CC&TI.
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Merchants Distributors, LLC
Merchants Distributors (MDI) is a privately-owned wholesale grocery store distributor headquartered in Hickory, NC. MDI supplies over 600 retail food stores with food and non-food items in NC, SC, GA, TN, VA, AL, WV, OH, FL, PA, MD, and KY. MDI celebrated its 85th anniversary on September 21, 2016. MDI's 85 year history is an interesting story of sacrifice, growth and success. It began as a small family business in the small town of Hickory, North Carolina, and as one local newspaper described it, "With little more than a bag of peanuts, an apple, and a stick of candy." What Lebanese immigrant Moses George and his sons purchased in 1931 for $17,000 has since grown to become a multimillion-dollar wholesale grocery company. Merchants Distributors is a great American success story but it is a company that has never forgotten its roots. Its success is based on: - Its values, its facilities, its variety, its Advertising programs, its cost of goods, and its innovations - The one thing that distinguishes MDI as superior to other distribution companies - leadership. MDI's owners have created a leadership style that supports the organization as one family working together for one common goal and a culture in its people that is impossible to duplicate.