For no one is this truer than Mr. Kanan, an auto parts distributor with a round, boyish face.
The Auto Hop is noteworthy because it originated not from a start-up but from a satellite distributor with longstanding ties to the rest of the TV industry.
His mother succeeded his father as the president and owner of Mid-Island Electrical Supply, a wholesale distributor with headquarters in Commack, N.Y.
PYA/Monarch, the nation's fourth-largest food service distributor, with about $2.7 billion in sales, also did not fit into the company's strategy.
Today, Royal is a producer, importer and distributor, with a portfolio of wines geared to all wallets and to modern and traditional palates.
That's why he is general counsel of Krasdale Foods, a major grocery distributor with headquarters in White Plains and a distribution center in the Bronx.
That helped the producers recover what they had already spent on production, but it often left the distributor with most or all of the profit.
The two companies formed a venture that combined Constellation's experience as a generator and distributor with Goldman's expertise in trading commodities.
Dennis Revell, a spokesman for TNT Fireworks, a wholesale distributor with offices in Fullerton, Calif., said fireworks allowed by the state were safe if properly used.
About six years ago he started Innovative Beverage Group as a distributor, with the idea of eventually creating his own brands.
Ron Phelps, commercial credit manager at Boulevard Tire Center, a tire distributor with 26 locations in Florida, pays $99 a month for Pulse, a service offered through Cortera,, an online business credit reporting system, that keeps tabs on his clients.
