First Supply LLC has acquired the assets of PH&I Supply Co. With the addition of the PH&I location in Kenosha, Wis.; the First Supply family of locations
grows to 24.
PH&I Supply Co., also a Wisconsin-based plumbing distribution company, has been in business for more than 60 years. Joining with First Supply, which is celebrating its 110th anniversary this year, ensures PH&I’s Southeastern Wisconsin customers continued years of outstanding service.
Joe Poehling, chairman, and Dick Adix, president, of First Supply, recently met with
PH&I employees and welcomed them to the First Supply family. “I am very
excited about our future as one company and I am personally looking forward to working with each of you,” Poehling told them.
As a member of First Supply, Michael (Mick) Medvecz, former president of PH&I, will
stay on in the new role as director of sales for the Kenosha area. First Supply now offers Southeastern Wisconsin eight convenient locations to better serve its customers. The Kenosha facility will be under the direction of Kevin Miller, general
manager of the Southeastern Wisconsin locations.
This is First Supply’s second acquisition in recent months. First Supply acquired H.W. Theis Co. in May.
First Supply LLC is a regional wholesale distributor that started in La Crosse, Wis., in 1897 as La Crosse Plumbing Supply. First Supply, now with 24 locations in the upper Midwest and employing over 500 people, is a family-owned, single source provider of plumbing, heating, cooling, municipal, waterworks, pump/well & septic, builder and industrial supplies.
