1/5/2015 7:59:00 PM
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SHORTTAKES: AZ Lifting Hardware, Boker’s, Chicago Hardware, INxSQL and Stimpson

Capital Marketing and Batten Co. are new reps for AZ Lifting Hardware, president Chuck Smith announced.

Capital Marketing was established in 2002 by industry veteran Robbie Gilchrist to represent fastener related manufacturers’ products to fastener and specialty tool distributors. Gilchrist started in the fastener industry in 1972. In 1985 he opened Capital Fasteners in 1985 and sold the distributorship in 1999. 

Capital Marketing will rep AZLH in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and eastern Georgia, and the Batten Company, to cover Alabama, Georgia (W), Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee. Tel: 336 906-940 Email: rgilchr485@aol.com Web: capital-marketing.com 

Batten Co. is owned by Randy Batten, who started his career in 1981 with J R Richards of Chattanooga, TN.  Batten will rep AZLH in Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and western Georgia. Tel: 205 401-7929 Email: batten11@gmail.com

“The addition of these two fine organizations will help us better serve our current customers as well as meet with folks we are not doing business with to introduce our products and the services that make us unique in the marketplace.” Smith said. “We can do a much better job in the southeast and now we’ll have the team to make it happen.”

AZ Lifting Hardware is a wholesale distributor of globally produced industrial lifting hardware such as turnbuckles, eye bolts, shackles, hooks and related wire and chain hardware and a manufacturer of Special length eye bolts through 1 1⁄2” (36mm) diameter. They have served the fastener, rigging and industrial distribution markets since 2006. AZ is located at 7150 W. Roosevelt St. Suite C101, Phoenix, AZ 85043. Tel: 888-936-1466 Web: azliftinghardware.com

 

Boker’s Inc. launched a new website with interactive specification tools: Bokers.com. The “search washer widget” provides non-standard flat washer sizes and the “stamping quick quote widget” provides RFQ submittal. 

Boker’s also announced the 60-page 2015 Washer Catalog.

Boker’s manufactures metal stampings, washers, spacers and shims. Boker’s is headquartered at 3104 Snelling Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55406-1937. Tel: 612 729-9365  Email: sales@bokers.com

 

After 37 years with Chicago Hardware & Fixture Co., national sales manager Jim Sullivan is “resigning” effective January 23.

Sullivan, 65, explained to FIN that he couldn’t bring himself to use the word “retiring.”

He first worked for Chicago Hardware part time while in college. After graduating from college, Sullivan’s first job was outside sales calls selling photo copiers and next he went with an advertising agency. His third job was with a printing company and one of his customers was Chicago Hardware. He met national sales manager John Ward, who soon invited Sullivan to go into outside sales for Chicago Hardware.  Sullivan was hired for outside sales is first few months included a variety of roles such as packing orders to get to know the business.

Sullivan has been with Chicago Hardware more than a third of the company’s 102-year history.  Third generation owner Tom Herbstritt and his son Brian Herbstritt now operate the company.

Sullivan commends the Herbstritt family for continually “looking ahead.”  He cited the expansion of Chicago Hardware’s Batavia plant with more equipment and machinery as as example.  

“What we do is the same as the traditional blacksmith,” Sullivan described Chicago Hardware. “But with hotter steel and bigger hammers.”

Sullivan’s initial plans are to spend the winter in a warmer climate and time with siblings and his four children and 16 grandchildren. By spring he may consider what else he intends to do.

Sullivan can be contacted at Chicago Hardware, 9100 Parklane Ave., Franklin Park, IL 60121. Tel: 847 455-6609 Email: jsullivan@chicagohardware.com

 

Brandi Reynolds is the new vice president of operations and support at INxSQL Software. Reynolds joined INxSQL in 2009 after graduating from Michigan State University and had been project manager and manager of support.

President Bob Reynolds said she “has earned this position through her hard work and dedication to our customers in North America. Her fresh vision for the needs of our users will enable us to continue to grow profitably, enhance our leading position in the industry and continue to offer an exceptional experience to the INxSQL customers.”

INxSQL provides software ERP solutions for fastener distributors and manufacturers. Integrated Inventory Solutions is headquartered at 1117 S. Cass Lake Rd., Waterford, MI 48328. Tel: 877 446-9775 Email: sales@inxsql.com Web: INxSQL.com

 

Stimpson Co. launched a Spanish language edition of it’s website: stimpson.com.  

Stimpson manufactures metal grommets, eyelets, hole plugs, snap fasteners and other metal fasteners and related attaching machines.

“This latest update to our website is definitely the result of listening to our customers and trying to implement something to improve their overall customer service experience both in Spanish and English,” advertising manager Jennifer Marcroft explained. 

Founded in 1852 as the Edwin B. Stimpson Co. in Manhattan, today Stimpson manufactures and supplies metal grommets, eyelets, hole plugs, snap fasteners and other metal fasteners. Stimpson ships two billion parts annually from a 260,000 sq ft facility at 1515 SW 13th Court, Pompano Beach, FL 33069. Tel: 954 946-3500 Email: customer.service@stimpson.com