Hughes Supply has realigned its management into five strategic business units
centered around existing product groups, each headed by a group president. Jim
Holland has been named group president for the plumbing/HVAC unit; Gradie
Winstead is group president for the water and sewer, fire protection and
concrete unit; Skip Hughes heads the electrical and electrical utility unit;
Mike Stanwood is group president for industrial PVF; and Bob Machaby heads the
building materials, pool and spa and apartment supplies business unit. Each
group president reports directly to Stewart Hall, Hughes Supply’s president/COO.
Holland, Winstead and Hughes had been regional vice presidents. Stanwood had
been president of Southwest Stainless, a company Hughes acquired in 1996.
Machaby had been a district manager with Hughes’ building materials division.