The pandemic “has wreaked havoc on businesses,” says Jayson Williams, president and CEO of Mayson-Dixon, a business development and management company based in Prince George’s County. “It made this country realize how fragile their supply chain can be.”
At the height of the pandemic, Lou Santoni, president of Santoni’s Marketplace and Catering, was getting only about two-thirds of the supplies he ordered, and he had to close the catering part of his business.
“We took a hit for months and months and months,” said Santoni of his Glyndon business.
Similarly, Rick Rogers CEO of B. Green Wholesale, a food service supplier based in Baltimore, said his business also was only getting two-thirds of what he ordered.