“Decades ago, there was a distributor meeting at a pipe mill in Mexico,” recalls Gyl, now president of Stone Mountain, Ga.-based industrial PVF master distributor Val-Fit.
To gain proper insight into the type of person industrial PVF icon Ismael Grinberg was, one need not go much farther than the story his son, Gyl, recently told me.
“Decades ago, there was a distributor meeting at a pipe mill in Mexico,” recalls Gyl, now president of Stone Mountain, Ga.-based industrial PVF master distributor Val-Fit. “We were their largest distributor in Mexico (more on that in a second). The pipe mill had quotas set that its distributors needed to reach in order to become or remain a type-A distributor. Type-A distributors always received the best prices and biggest discounts.