General Parts Group Announces New Director of Manufacturer Relations, Joe Johnson

General Parts Group is pleased to announce that Joe Johnson has joined the General Parts senior management team in the position of Director of Manufacture Relations. Joe will play a key role in the future direction of General Parts and will be responsible for building manufacture relationships and well as sourcing and negotiating new manufacturer agreements for both service and O.E.M. Parts.

Joe joins General Parts with a wealth of management experience including ten years of industry experience with 3-Wire. Joe also has fifteen years’ experience in the beverage industry having worked as a Territory Coordinator for Pepsi-Cola before moving to develop his career at Energized Distribution a Red Bull distributor. During this time, Joe held the roles of Sales Director and then Operations Director.

Joe will be based in General Parts Indianapolis location.

About General Parts Group

General Parts Group is a provider of commercial kitchen equipment repair services. Founded in 1939, the company has grown to be a distributor of O.E.M. parts and provides service for over 60,000 customers and 400 manufacturers of commercial food service equipment. Corporate headquarters are located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and with major branch operations strategically located in Arizona (3), Colorado, Florida, Idaho (2), Illinois, Indiana (2), Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri (2), Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma (2), Oregon (2), Tennessee, Texas(2), Washington and Wisconsin (2), the company is ideally positioned to provide Quality Service for over one third of the United States. Viewed as the market leader in most of the markets it serves and in terms of overall sales, General Parts Group ranks in the top five of independent service companies nationally.