Retailers’ Role in the Business of Being Prepared

When it comes to emergency preparedness, retailers have a dual mission: ready their own organizations and support others.

Mayday Ready For Disaster

The contrast could not have been more stark. When John Tepel, President of Mayday Industries, Inc., Westminster, CA, got word of a devastating earthquake in Haiti, and utter destruction of Port-Au-Prince (the capital), he was on a leisurely vacation in beautiful Hawaii. He didn’t wait to hear later reports on the climbing toll of dead [...]