AD hosted its Decorative Brands Division 2020 virtual annual meeting, the last of AD’s seven fall meetings that shifted to virtual, from Nov. 17 – 19, 2020. During the meeting, a record-breaking 175 attendees from 66 members and suppliers gathered virtually to network and invest in valuable relationships.
AD’s Plumbing, Heating, Cooling and Piping Business Unit hosted its second virtual fall meeting from Oct. 19-22, welcoming a record- breaking 1,090 independent distributor members and supplier partners from its U.S.-based Plumbing, Pipe, Valves and Fittings, and HVAC Divisions to the 2020 virtual North American meeting.
Calling on strengths like adaptability, innovation, independence and leadership, the AD community is seeing signs of stabilization and recovery as it reports 2020 nine-month results.
As the first in a slate of virtual fall meetings, AD’s Canada Plumbing & Heating Division hosted over 235 independent distributor members and supplier partners at its first-ever virtual supplier conference.
AD announced its new Canada warehouse and meeting center, located in the greater Toronto area, is officially open for business. The new facility provides Canada-based AD members with redistribution of over 75 product lines of industrial, safety and janitorial items, including private-label brand Tuff Grade.
AD announced its Senior Vice President of Human Resources Neil Cohen has won the HR Person of the Year Award for medium sized companies in the greater Philadelphia region. The award recognizes HR professionals who exemplify outstanding achievement.
AD announced it has finalized the merger agreement with Tampa-based SafetyNetwork and set Jan. 1, 2021 as the closing date, creating AD’s only safety-dedicated division focused on the growth of independent distributors specializing in the safety market.
On a same-store basis, member sales across all AD’s divisions and countries were down 6% through the first six months of this year, to $21.6 billion, driven by a 13% decline in Q2