Armor Protective Packaging® 35 Year Anniversary: Chapter 4

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In 1999, John hired David Yancho to lead the sales efforts. Yancho’s background with 3M and FedEx package engineering, along with his distributor sales experience, fit nicely for what was needed at SKS Industries at the time. Yancho went to work on setting up a distribution network throughout the United States. Within a couple of years, SKS began to expand to most of the industrial markets of the USA, Canada and Mexico. Unfortunately, cancer took the life of John’s wife and business partner, Shari Holden in 2002. Throughout the time of Shari’s illness, John began to reduce his role within the company and eventually brought aboard Robin McConnell to serve as President and Technical Director in 2002. Robin brought a background rich with chemistry expertise as well as an MBA from Michigan State University. Soon Yancho and McConnell began to discuss with Holden the purchase of the business.