Fred V. Keenan received the first American Supply Association award named in his honor for his lifetime achievement in the industry.

Marketing group Affiliated Distributors has recognized several of its suppliers and affiliates for exceptional performance in the past year.

Affilated Distributors hosted more than 100 Industrial Supply Division sales and marketing executives at the first A-D Safety Conference in Chicago.

McJunkin Corp, Cameron & Barkley and their joint venture McJunkin-Cambar have signed an agreement to acquire certain assets of 18 Fairmont Supply Co. industrial-supply branches and stores-management sites.

Deacon Industrial Supply Co. reached an agreement with Herman Goldner Co. to purchase certain assets of Goldner's Industrial Supply Division.

A little more than a year after its founding, supplyFORCE.com announced that it will target virtually all its sales and marketing activities and technology development at national accounts and integrated supply.

A recent survey points to rapid growth in Internet commerce over the next two years in the industrial-supply business.

Wilson Industries, a subsidiary of Smith International, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the net assets of Houston-based Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Corp.

The business-research firm The Freedonia Group projects U.S. demand for industrial valves to rise 3.8% annually to $12 billion in 2004.

Plotkin Bros. Supply (Glassport, Pa.) has signed a letter of intent to join USFlow.