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Briggs Industries Inc. celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2008. The company got its start in 1908 as a carriage/wagon/automobile body manufacturer in Detroit.

Without Congressional action the tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 will expire in 2011, including the Death Tax and 3% withholding tax.

Liberty Pumps has awarded its “Top Rep of the Year” to Martin L. Kornstein Inc. of Roslyn Heights, NY.

It’s far from the only issue challenging our industry’s supply chain partners and maybe not the biggest, but private labeling seems the most irresolute.

Wiseway Supply (Florence, KY) opened a new Harrison, OH, branch May 5.

Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Co. opened a new plastic pipe manufacturing plant in Cedar City, UT.

A good rep puts the needs of the wholesaler first, the needs of the manufacturer second and his own needs third.

G. Guthrie Conyngham, 84, CEO of W.H. Conyngham & Co. Inc., parent company of wholesale distributor Eastern PA Supply Co., died peacefully at his home May 10. After active duty

Charles J. Scheuble, 83, former president of Anchor Supply Co., Pittsburgh, PA, died in January 2008, Supply House Times recently learned. He joined Anchor (initially called Anchor Sanitary Co.) in

Wolseley’s North American Division, which includes Ferguson and Stock Building Supply, is distributing relief packages to victims of the recent tornadoes and storms that caused widespread damage in southeastern Virginia.