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People & Leadership
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Your Best People Are Retiring, But Your Best New Hire Is AI
The distributors, wholesalers and merchants that frame AI this way are already pulling ahead. The ones still running AI primarily as an IT project risk losing twice: first the people, then the knowledge they take with them.
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Crescent Electric Names Chief Supply Chain Officer
Kristee Mitchell, who joined Crescent in 2023, moved into the newly expanded role Aug. 31 after most recently serving as vice president of supply chain fulfillment.
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U.S. Adds 162,000 Jobs as Manufacturing Hiring Accelerates
For distributors, the August report points to continued demand across important industrial end markets without a corresponding surge in distributor hiring.
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Lowe’s Reshuffles Executive Team as It Pushes Pro, AI Growth
Lowe’s has been building out its Pro capabilities with expanded product access, digital quoting and purchasing tools, job-lot quantities, and direct-to-jobsite delivery.
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Lowe’s Foundation Launches Coalition With 1 Million Skilled Trades Worker Goal
Lowe’s recently committed $250 million to expand that work, with a goal of helping train and develop 250,000 tradespeople by 2035.
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Distributor mSupply Names a New Executive
Richard Garza has more than a decade of human resources leadership experience, including work on mergers and acquisitions, HR information system implementations and migrations, and compensation and benefits strategy,
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SupplyHouse Launches $100,000 Contest for Skilled Tradespeople
The Melville, New York-based company said its Day Savers contest will award $10,000 each to 10 tradespeople nominated for helping customers, families, coworkers, or communities.
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QXO Names a President and COO as It Integrates Acquisitions
Ken West will join QXO effective Sept. 1 and report to Chairman and CEO Brad Jacobs, the Greenwich, Connecticut-based company said Aug. 24. He will oversee QXO’s day-to-day operations.
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Midland Industries Names its Next CEO
At Midland, Mark Roszkowski will oversee a business that distributes fittings, valves, hoses, clamps and related flow-control and connection products.
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Essendant Layoffs Reach 1,278 as Restructuring Expands to California
Essendant is eliminating another 103 jobs in California, bringing confirmed workforce reductions across six states to 1,278 as the national wholesaler closes facilities and considers potential sales and new capital to avoid liquidation.