Posted by Traveling Salesman at 9/3/2012 7:54 PM
Global Fastener News printed the following line from an article I read on September 2: “The death of Dominic Polimeni brings back fastener industry memories of the late 1990s and early 2000s when several companies were formed to buy successful fastener distributorships.” That’s for sure. The article states that Polimeni headed Distribution Dynamics and Questron Technologies, neither of which exists under those names today. Global Fastener News has a very good “Fastener History” section that lets a reader go back and read articles from past years, so one can track the history and see that today these companies are part of Anixter and Gexpro, respectively. But that only tells part of the story. I would really encourage anyone interested in the fastener industry to go to Global Fastener News’ coverage of the history of Distribution Dynamics and Question. (…)
