A Brief History of McCarthy-Duce Sales
Begun in the Spring of 1952 by our founder Robert McCarthy. McCarthy-Duce Sales has seen tremendous changes in this market over the last 55 years.
- In June of 1970 Bob was joined by his son in-law Al Duce whose job it was to sell all those many accounts outside of the Twin Cities who Bob did not have time to call on. Beginning a long tradition of covering our territory from "cover to cover and border to border".
- In September of 1978, Al Duce was made a partner in the firm and took on additional account responsibilities of several of the many Hardware Wholesalers in the territory plus a fast growing mass-merchant called Target.
- In 1979 McCarthy-Duce was the first firm in the territory to have a committed store service team. Some of the early accounts serviced include Knox Lumber, Menards, and Mills Fleet Farm.
- In January of 1990 Kelly Griffin joined the MDS team bringing a retailers background and experience with him.
- In July of 1991 Brian Heiser came aboard as a salesman with many years of experience in the market and a broad and a successful history with who was to become one of our largest customers, Menards.
- In the Spring of 1995 our founder, Bob McCarthy, decided to retire and Kelly Griffin and Brian Heiser were promoted to owners and officers of the company.