Bell / Zelenda & West-Spec Merge

John Wolz

Main Street Resources, owner of Pawtucket Fasteners LLC, acquired the net assets of West-Spec Partners. The merged companies will become Vertex Fasteners, and will be headed by Pawtucket CEO David Hirsch.
Pawtucket, RI-based PFI includes Bell Fasteners, Zelenda Metric, and Stillwater Fasteners,.
In addition to Hirsch as president and CEO, Vertex will be led by Mark Alperin as COO and Chuck Griffith vice president of finance. Vertex will have an East region run by Mark Klosek, executive vice president for national sales; and the West by Dave Kujanek, EVP national sales. Joel Roseman will be executive vice president of Distributor Alliance Services.
Hirsch said Vertex will have facilities in 11 cities: Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Cleveland, Tampa, Atlanta, Charlotte, New Bedford and east Freetown, MA, and Pawtucket.
Main Street Resources is a Westport, CT-based private equity firm comprised of entrepreneurs, executives and investors. Web: bellfasteners.com �2003 FastenerNews.com