After nearly 20 years with the company, Distribution America (DA) CEO Dave Christmas will be retiring at the end of 2022. In celebration of his long-time service in the independent home improvement channel, Hardware Retailing talked to Christmas about his …
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Distribution America and PRO Group Form Hardlines Distribution Alliance
Effective April 1, 2022, Distribution America (DA) and PRO Group (PRO) will be operating as Hardlines Distribution Alliance (HDA), a service management company representing over 65 member distributors nationwide. Shari Kalbach, who was serving as vice president and chief operating …
Read More »PRO Group and Distribution America Announce In-Person Executive Planning Conference
Distribution America and PRO Group are excited to announce the annual Executive Planning Conference (EPC) will be held in-person at the Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort & Spa November 16-18, 2021. Attendees can expect all the pillars of the EPC, including …
Read More »Distribution America and PRO Group Hold First Virtual Executive Planning Conference
To provide attendees with invaluable one-on-one interactions amidst the pandemic, Distribution America and PRO Group, Inc. have hosted the first ever virtual Executive Planning Conference (EPC) using the Zoom platform. From Nov. 16-19, distributor and vendor attendees had the opportunity …
Read More »Distribution America and PRO Group Executive Planning Conference Goes Virtual
Distribution America and PRO Group’s annual Executive Planning Conference is going virtual. This year’s conference will use Zoom online meeting technology in place of the in-person event that was originally scheduled to take place in Tucson, Arizona. The 2021 conference …
Read More »DA’s Dave Christmas Talks Pandemic Logistics
Hardware Retailing asked distributors how they amended operations to best serve their customers during the initial phases of lockdown, including communication and supply chain logistics. Read the remarks from Distribution America‘s president and CEO Dave Christmas below, and click here …
Read More »Distributors Talk Communication, Logistics During Pandemic
Over the last few months, the world has seen remarkable acts of courage from people who are still going to work every day because they work in essential fields. Health care professionals, grocery stockers, shipping facility workers and hardware store …
Read More »NRHA, Industry Leaders Urge Lawmakers to Deem Home Improvement Retailers ‘Essential’
The North American Retail Hardware Association (NRHA) and home improvement industry leaders are banding together to urge federal, state and local governments to deem home improvement workers as “essential” in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The letter was signed …
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