Milt Sender
Milt Sender was born in 1943, on a dairy farm outside of Erie, Pennsylvania, the only child of German/Jewish holocaust survivors.
In 1965, Milt went to work for Staff Supermarket Associates, then in Great Neck, NY, first as a special assistant to the President, and then as Director of Private Brand Perishables Procurement. Staff was a cooperative of 18 supermarket chains that bought a common Private Brand. These companies included Hannaford, Wegmans, Schnucks, Bruno’s, and companies that now make up parts of larger supermarket organizations such as Stop & Shop and Safeway.
In 1968, Milt joined Kroger Company in Cincinnati, OH as an Administrative Assistant to the Executive Vice President. In that capacity, he worked on one of the first computerized sales forecasting programs utilizing demographic diversity data. Thereafter, Milt was in charge of the development of a plan and its execution to build the first “slow moving common item warehouse” in the U.S. and relieved expansionary pressure from Kroger’s then 24-division warehouses.
On July 5, 1970 Milt joined forces with Peter Schwartz to form Daymon Associates, Inc. in New York City. That partnership has grown into one of the largest private brand companies in the world with offices in over 200 locations throughout the U.S. and 23 other countries around the globe.
Following the death of his friend and co-founder Peter Schwartz In 1994, Milt and the associates of Daymon set up and continue to support RICBAC, a cancer research and development group directed by Dr. Kurt Isselbacher of the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Today, Milt Sender serves as Chairman of Daymon Worldwide.