Wallace Distribution Co.

WholesaleTennessee, United States51-200 Employees

Wallace Distribution Co. is a wholesale distributor headquartered in Morristown, Tennessee, serving about 15 states in the Southeast with a broad catalog that includes hardware, automotive and industrial products, housewares, lumber and building materials, paint, tools, and farm supplies. The company operates through three divisions—Hardware, Industrial & Lumber, and Building—and maintains a distribution network supported by more than 100 trucks delivering to PRO Hardware, Golden Link Hardware, Farm Mart stores, and independent retailers. The business traces its origins to 1922, when W.B. Whittaker and Sam Holtsinger opened a hardware store; it later became Wallace Hardware in 1944 and rebranded as Wallace Distribution in 2022 to mark its 100th anniversary. 

In the wholesale landscape, Wallace Distribution serves a regional market with around two thousand customers and about two thousand five hundred vendors in its network, and relies on a field sales force to support delivery and service across dealer and independent retailer channels. The company operates two annual dealer markets, held in March and September, to coordinate offerings and service levels. Based in Morristown, Tennessee, the business sits among mid-sized regional distributors in the Southeast, maintaining a sizeable warehouse footprint and a multi-category product portfolio focused on service to dealers and independent retailers.

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