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M.W. "Bud" Meyer, 80, co-founder of plumbing supply firm William F. Meyer Co., Aurora, Ill., died July 6.

Gary Buffington, 57, executive vice president of the Industrial Distribution Association, died July 11 after a battle with cancer.

ASA Education Foundation is sponsoring one-day "Top Gun Survival Schools" for distributors' sales forces, led by consultant Dave Kahle.

The Read Center for Distribution Research and Education at Texas A&M University is offering an Industrial Sales Seminar that focuses on selling solutions rather than product in Dallas during July and August.

Hughes Supply, Inc. (Orlando, Fla.) is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a series of gala celebrations in cities around the country.

ECR International has introduced brand-based Dealer Programs, beginning with its Dunkirk and Utica boiler brands.

Brad Sell and his family attended an auction and roast in June.

Robertson Heating Supply, Alliance, Ohio, recently started construction on a new corporate office and central distribution center in a newly developed industrial park in Alliance on a 29-acre site.

Ferguson's software analyst Caroline Smith clungs to a boulder while she searched for debris as one of some 20 company volunteers at a community project in Hampton, Va.'s Huntington Park on "Clean the Bay Day."

Ferguson (Newport News, Va.) announced appointments of individuals who have joined the company through the Familian Northwest integration.