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Mark, along with fellow college student, Norman Katz, went on to form a grocery brokerage company, named “Normark”, using both of their first names in the naming of their new endeavor. Mark’s father Ralph would provide much of the initial investment and helped them obtain the first three accounts: Ming Tea, Aborn’s Coffee and E. Waldo Ward, a Sierra Madre packer of marmalades. During the first few years, Mark and Norman Katz worked long hours getting their new brokerage company established and getting their products into retail accounts, but Norman had to supplement his income, so he purchased a grocery store. In 1954, Mark, with his father Ralph’s assistance, bought out Norman Katz’s interest in the company for $5,000, and Mark re-named the company Normark & Associates. Mark served as Normark’s Vice President from 1952 until 1961 and as Executive Vice President from 1961 to 1972 when he became President. In 1989, he became Chairman and CEO. He served in that capacity until 1996 when the company was sold to Kelly-Clarke and the combined company became southern California’s largest food brokerage company with offices in San Francisco and Phoenix. Normark was considered by many in the supermarket industry as the premier perishable food brokerage company on the west coast for several decades.