Merchants Distributors, LLC
D. Ingram Gillam is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in engineering and facility management. Current role as Director Of Facilities Engineering at Merchants Distributors, LLC follows previous positions including Corporate Engineering Project Manager at Shurtape Technologies, LLC, Corporate Equipment Engineer and Maintenance Supervisor/Plant Engineer at Camfil USA, and Researcher/Engineer at ChemTronix. D. Ingram Gillam began professional career as a Cooperative Education Student at Robert Bosch GmbH. Academic credentials include a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from NC State College of Engineering and an MBA from Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business.
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.