Historic Louisiana

Allen Dickson is the current board chairman
and Claudius Markham Dickson II and Paul
Meade Dickson are officers.
Utilizing an innovative physical plant
and embracing technology and automation
to enhance its efficiency and to provide valueadded
services to its customers, the company
continues to maintain its competitive edge
and is a recognized industry leader in
these areas.
In 1985 the headquarters moved from a
downtown warehouse to a site just south of
Shreveport. With two hundred thousand
square feet of uniquely designed architecture,
the setting is both effective and pastoral
with a relaxed atmosphere reflecting the
corporate personality.
With an unusually large trading area
extending from New Mexico, north to
Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, east to
Alabama, and south to the Gulf of Mexico, the
distribution facility is the largest in the South.
The company operates its own trucking fleet,
which they feel makes a more personal
relationship with their customers while
maintaining a higher level of service.
A key to the company’s recent growth has
been the Dicksons’ recognition that their
automation technology expertise can be
directed toward modifying the operations of
their customers, both retail and hospital. By
enhancing the operations of those they serve,
the company has become not just a
distributor, but also a provider of cutting-edge
technology to the benefit of its customers, and
moreover to the industry as a whole.
Skipper Dickson says, “Morris & Dickson’s
continued success is based on continuity of
management under family ownership and
operation, through which today’s leaders
‘grew up in the business,’ creating personal
relationships with both employees and
customers, who know they can always talk to
a Dickson.”
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Left: Products from the early days of
Morris & Dickson.
Right: The Dickson family management
team (from left to right): Allen Dickson,
Paul Dickson, Mark Dickson, and
Skipper Dickson.
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