Who inspires you? That was the crux of Affiliated Distributors Chairman and CEO Bill Weisberg’s annual talk at the buying group’s recent record-breaking 2014 PHCP North American Meeting held in suburban Dallas.
F.W. Webb recently acquired Watertown (Mass.) Supply. For more than 65 years and three generations, Watertown has specialized in plumbing and heating with a primary focus on repair parts for the trades, and for commercial, industrial and institutional facilities management.
Ward Manufacturing has come a long way from the company Joseph P. Ward founded in 1924 in Blossburg, Pa., with 30 employees who produced a small line of cast-iron steam and drainage fittings, plugs and bushings.