Merchants Distributors, LLC
Nicole Ansalvish is an experienced marketing and design professional with a diverse background in digital media, graphic design, and marketing operations. Currently serving as the Marketing Operations Manager and Omnichannel Platform Owner at Merchants Distributors, LLC since September 2019, Nicole has also held various roles including Digital Marketing eCommerce Specialist. Nicole's expertise includes producing promotional videos and managing brand websites for Simply Nicole, while previous positions at CaroMont Health and Gildan involved creating marketing materials and applying fashion trends to the sock and hosiery industry. With a solid educational foundation in Digital Media Production from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Nicole also contributed to the visual identity of organizations such as The Jocelyn Paige Lee Foundation and trained colleagues at Rite Aid Pharmacy.
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.