Merchants Distributors, LLC
Gary Baker is an experienced professional in the produce industry, currently serving as the Senior Director of Fresh at Merchants Distributors, LLC since November 2004, with previous roles including Director of Produce and Floral and Produce/Floral Buyer. Baker has been a member of the Board of Directors for the Southeast Produce Council since September 2019, contributing to the organization's mission of supporting produce stakeholders in the Southeast. Past experience includes a position as a Produce Buyer for STEP-UPP from 2012 to 2013, a Produce Merchandiser at Winn-Dixie, and a Category Manager at Kmart, where Baker managed the produce category across three warehouses. Education includes a Bachelor of Business Administration from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and a High School Diploma from Pine Forest High School.
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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.