Norco announces senior management reorganization
Norco, Inc., a, welding, safety supply and medical
supply company headquartered out of Boise, Idaho, has announced a
reorganization of the company’s senior management structure effective January
1, 2012.
“As Norco continues to move forward and position
itself for tremendous growth, we determined that a reorganization of the senior
management structure was an essential move for us to meet sales goals, develop
our people, and to better serve our customers,” said Ned
Pontious, President of Norco.
This
reorganization is as follows and will be effective January 1, 2012:
Reporting
to Ned Pontious, Norco President
will be the following Zone Vice Presidents:
- Mike Calcaterra will assume the role as Northern Zone Vice President, responsible for the sales and profit
in a 17 store network in Washington, Montana, and Northern Idaho.
Greg will work out of Spokane,
WA.
- Troy Johnson will assume
the role as Central Zone Vice President,
responsible for the sales and profit in an 18 store network in Oregon, Southern Idaho, and Nevada. Troy
will be working out of Norco’s main office in Boise, ID.
- George Douzenis will
assume the role as Eastern Zone Vice
President, responsible for the sales and profit in a 15 store network in Wyoming and Utah.
Also
reporting to Ned Pontious:
Dan Taylor, current Vice President of
Industrial sales, will represent Norco
as the Industrial Executive Vice President, responsible
for industrial sales and for building a product managed focus group comprised
of:
- Larry Booth, Welding
Product Manager
- Brian Anderson, Safety
Product Manager
- Keith Partch, Specialty
Gas and NorLab Product Manger
- Jason Whitehead, Bulk
Gas Product Manager
Kevin Joplin, current Vice President of Medical
sales, will assume the role as Medical
Executive Vice President, responsible for sales and growth in Norco’s Medical Division.
Brent
Seward has been appointed the Vice
President of Medical Sales, reporting to Kevin
Joplin, Medical Executive Vice President. For the past 2 years
Brent has been Norco’s
Operations Manager and will be working with Kevin
Joplin throughout 2012 as he transitions into retirement, at
which time Brent will assume the Executive Vice President role.
Operations Manager
Larry
Aarsby has accepted the position as Operations
Manager. Larry, one of the former owners of Gases Plus, has relocated to Boise and will be responsible
for all asset tracking, purchasing, medical repair, welder repair, warehouse,
and information technology.
Norco began in Boise in 1948 as the welding supply division
of the Nordling Auto Parts Company. In 1968 Norco was purchased by Larry Kissler, which
at the time had 15 employees and two locations. Headquartered out of Boise, Norco is the
nation’s largest privately owned welding, safety, medical and gas supplier,
currently operating over 56 branches in Idaho,
Montana, Oregon,
Nevada, Washington,
Utah, and Wyoming.
For
more information about this article, or to schedule an interview, please
contact Chad Mendenhall at
208-336-1643 or email at chadm@norco-inc.com.