All in: Ace Stainless Supply trives under new ownership
Two Industrial PVF distribution vets purchase California-based Ace Stainless Supply at height of pandemic, focus on service and e-Commerce propels success.
It takes guts to purchase a company for the first time. Add the pressures and economic impacts of a filled with uncertainty pandemic and you must have major guts to jump into a brand new venture, buy a company and take on all of its operations.
For Ed Long and Tom Murphy, the decision was almost a no-brainer. And if you’ve seen the way the two are transforming the 40-year-old stainless pipe, valves, fittings distributor — Ace Stainless — since purchasing the company in 2020, you’d be shocked to know it’s just a team of about 10 people behind the major growth.