Merchants Distributors, LLC
James Lamb is an accomplished finance professional with extensive experience in accounting and financial reporting. Currently serving as Controller at Merchants Distributors, LLC since August 2020, James previously held the role of Director of Accounting at Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. from November 2011 to August 2020, where responsibilities included reviewing financial statements for GAAP compliance and providing detailed analytics to senior management. Prior to that, James worked at Winston, Williams, Creech, Evans, & Company, LLP, progressing from Accounting Manager to CPA from May 2009 to November 2011. James holds a Master's degree in Accounting and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, both from North Carolina State University.
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.