Do It Best President and CEO Bob Taylor Joins LDI Board of Managers

Bob Taylor, president and chief executive officer of Do it Best Corp., the Ft. Wayne co-op supporting 4,000 hardware and home improvement locations, has been elected to the Board of Managers of LDI Ltd., LLC. “Bob will provide LDI with depth of expertise and years of experience in leading an institution providing distribution, supply chain, logistics and customer-facing retailing products and services across the U.S. and globally,” said André B. Lacy, LDI chairman. “We are grateful he is willing to bring his knowledge, perspective, insight and judgment to our Board.”

LDI is an Indianapolis-based holding company with interests in the distribution and supply- chain/logistics industries. LDI’s portfolio currently includes Tucker Rocky, a leading national distributor of parts, apparel and accessories for motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles in the powersports industry, based in Ft. Worth, Texas (www.TuckerRocky.com); and OIA Global, a Portland, Oregon- headquartered provider of domestic and international logistics, supply chain management and packaging solutions (www.oiaglobal.com). Tucker Rocky serves some 1,000 vendors and 8,000 dealers in the powersports industry. OIA has company-owned and agent locations in the U.S. and 75 countries globally.

Taylor has more than 35 years of experience in hardware retail and distribution. He has served as president & CEO of Do it Best since January 2002. Do it Best is a full-line, full-service distributor of lumber, hardware, and building materials products serving some 4,000 member-owned locations in the U.S. and in some 50 countries globally. Prior to joining Do it Best, he served as president of Taylor’s Do it Centers in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He currently serves on the board of the National Association of Wholesalers & Distributors and on the board of directors for Tower Bank in Ft. Wayne.

In addition to leading Do it Best, Taylor is active in civic and community life, serving in Ft. Wayne on the boards of the United Way, the Northeast Indiana Regional Chamber, the Northeast Indiana Marketing Partnership, and the Foellinger Foundation and statewide as a director of the Indiana State Chamber and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation.

Taylor joins Michael L. Smith, retired CFO of WellPoint and a director of multiple other enterprises, as an outside director on LDI’s board.

LDI, a Forbes ranked private holding company, just celebrated the centennial of its founding in 1912. The U.S. Corrugated-Fiber Box Company grew to become the nation’s second largest non- integrated company of its type. In the 1980s, LDI exited the paper industry, became a management holding company, made a strategic decision to concentrate on distribution, and entered a variety of industries, including video films, automotive paints, bicycle parts, powersports with Tucker Rocky, and logistics with OIA.

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