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Core & Main CEO Steve LeClair on Growth in Challenging Times

Core & Main CEO Steve LeClair talks leadership, the company’s IPO and how his company has overcome numerous challenges over the past 19 months.

October 20, 2021

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  • In order to prepare for its eventual IPO, several years ago Core & Main CEO Steve LeClair started to implement some of the same principles used by public companies.
  • Authenticity is one of the key traits that Core & Main fosters with its leaders.
  • In addition to the pandemic, supply chain constraints and labor shortages, Core & Main also had to work through the challenges of several hurricanes in 2020 and 2021.

For the past 19 months, distributors have run an obstacle course that has included the trifecta of the pandemic, labor shortages and supply chain constraints, but

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