For a third straight year, AD has been recognized as a Top Workplace in the greater Philadelphia region based on feedback from its annual employee engagement survey.
AD announced Marty McLaughlin has joined the group as its first chief marketing officer effective April 1. McLaughlin is charged with collaborating with AD’s members and boards to identify new areas of added value for its community, beyond the core functions of a buying and marketing group.
Despite the clear impacts of the pandemic, AD achieved a 1% increase in net distributions to its members and was able to offer innovative services and support to help members navigate the rapidly changing environment.
With 28 years of commitment to Canadian independent distributors, and as a sign of its focus on further investment in the Canadian market, AD announced it has made the strategic decision to establish AD Canada as a distinct business unit, serving the more than 150 members of its three Canada-based divisions.
AD announced that its member-owners have elected two new directors and reelected one director to its 2021 LLC board of directors. More than 120 of AD’s 850 member companies provide leadership on corporate and divisional boards and committees.
AD announced it has completed mergers with SafetyNetwork and Delta Distributors, the group’s 11th and 12th mergers since it started in 1981 and its fourth and fifth in the last two years. Both mergers were effective Jan. 1, 2021.
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.
