New innovation center to be built byWinsupply
Company does construction wholesaling.
Winsupply’s new facility in Moraine is aimed at fostering innovation at its nearly 600 locations nationwide, and will most directly benefit a local subsidiary that will move there, officials said.
The Richard W. Schwartz
Center for Innovation will be located at the corner of Kettering Boulevard and Big Hill Road in Moraine, and serve as a local training facility forWinsupply Support Services employees from two adjacent campus buildings.
Naming of new28,000-squarefoot facility is a tribute to wellknown Dayton businessman and philanthropist Richard Schwartz, Winsupply’s chairman and its former president and CEO.
Winsupply shares risk and equity with partner companies
— 600 of them — in 45 states. It has 6,800 employees nationwide, including more than 400 throughout the Dayton area, 275 of them at its Moraine campus.
One of the Dayton-area’s largest businesses, employers and fastest-growing companies, Winsupply is in the business of constructionwholesaling, every day supplying thousands of different products to contractors and installers nationwide.
Thatmeans “everything from faucets to furnaces, pipes to pumps and lighting to landscape irrigation,” said John McKenzie, president ofWinsupply Inc. and its Support Services Group.
“Some call us a $ 4 billion wholesaler, butwe’re not,” McKenzie said. “Instead, we’re a collection of about 600 independent wholesaling locations in 45 states across the U.S. We’re a collection of 600 separate companies each one run by a local entrepreneur that altogether produced nearly $4 billion dollars in revenues last year.”
Winsupply’s Support Services Campus consists of three buildings at 3110 Kettering Blvd., 3176 Kettering Blvd. ( Wilcon Construction) and at 3131 S. Dixie Drive. The RichardW. Schwartz Center for Innovation will be its fourth.
The company’s support services team delivers “high- quality, low-cost, back-office services that the local companies need every day,” things like payroll and accounting, marketing and training, sourcing and logistics. e- commerce and IT, he said.