Merchants Distributors, LLC
Rachel Ivan is an experienced advertising specialist currently employed at Merchants Distributors, LLC since January 2023, where innovative design solutions for ad layouts are initiated and coordinated. Rachel has a history of freelance graphic design from February 2019 to March 2023, successfully upgrading corporate brands and collaborating with clients for tailored design adjustments. Previous roles include experience as a graphic designer at OTPST, a social media manager at Style Exchange Hickory, and various customer service positions that honed interpersonal and communication skills. Rachel holds a degree in Graphic Design from Central Piedmont Community College, complementing a strong foundation established at Fred T Foard with a high school diploma in General Studies.
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.