Affiliated Distributors Electrical Division was founded in 1981, and is now North America 's #1 Marketing Group with a mission to increase market share of its members by driving value-added programs. Affiliated Distributors calls itself The Marketing Group because of it’s commitment to providing marketing leadership to both Affiliate Members and Suppliers. A-D sponsors many different programs and events to increase sales and build relationships with between affiliates and suppliers.
Affiliated Distributors bases its growth and success upon the democratic structure of their Affiliate networks and committees. These networks provide leadership and guidance to A-D management and are a opportunity for affiliate’s and suppliers to share successes, challenges and best practices in their respective local markets.
Affiliated Distributors role is to level the playing field between strong local and regional wholesalers and their national chain competitors. Vital to Affiliated Distributors mission is to provide tangible value and greater than market growth to affiliates and suppliers who support A-D. To date Affiliated Distributors comprise of five separate divisions
- Electrical Supply Division - US and (founded in 1981)
- Industrial Supply Division (founded in 1994)
- HVAC Division (founded in 2006)
- Pipe, Valves, and Fittings Division (founded in 1995)
- Plumbing Division (founded in 2001)
In 2000, A-D began to establish relationships with Service Provider companies on behalf of its members. Today there are over 45 Service Providers providing bottom-line cost savings on a wide variety of products and services.
Affiliated Distributors is very selective and specific for its membership criteria in order to remain committed to offering its Affiliates and Suppliers a tremendous advantage of their competitors. Affiliated Distributors comprises of independent entrepreneurial Affiliates that are:
- Leaders in their local and/or regional trading areas
- Professionally managed
- Locally owned
- Marketing oriented
- Financially strong
A-D’s Affiliates serve a broad range of industries and are able to provide their customers a competitive solution with the full support of multi-billion dollar enterprise behind them.
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