Safety Marketing Group Announces Award Winners at 2010 Partnership Conference

Tampa, FL Safety Marketing Group (SMG), the worlds largest consortium of independently owned safety equipment distributors, today released names of the Annual Partnership Conference Award Winners. These Awards include the Preferred Supplier of the Year, Jon Cal Murray Distributor of the Year, and the Rich Harper Commitment to Excellence Supplier and Distributor Awards.

The winners were announced during a special ceremony at the groups annual conference held at the Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

They are as follows:

Rich Harper Award Eagle
Radians

Most Growth
OBBCO Safety (Distributor)
Underwater Kinetics (Supplier)

John Cal Murray Award Eagle
Rayco Safety

JMA (Joint Marketing Agreement) Award
Safety Products Inc (Distributor)
Radians (Supplier)

Supplier of the Year: Top 5 Peak Performers
Accuform Signs
Capital Safety (DBI-Sala)
Eagle Manufacturing
Radians
Tingley Rubber

Distributor of the Year: Top 5 Peak Performers
Guardian Fire & Safety
Medsafe
Mettam Safety
Safety Products Inc
Stauffer Glove & Safety

Gold Suppliers
Accuform Signs
Radians
Tingley Rubber
Capital Safety
Eagle Manufacturing
Gasco
Cortex
Lakeland Industries
Se-Kure Domes
Tenacious Holdings
Safety Zone
Protective Industrial Products
Kimberly Clark & Jackson Safety
Wells Lamont
Superior / NoTrax

Gold Distributors
Safety Products Inc
Mettam Safety
Stauffer Safety
Fremont Industrial
Medsafe
Guardian Safety
Lone Star Safety
Rayco Safety
Safety Today
Mid Continent
Wise Safety
SafetyWear
Industrial Safety Supply
Calolympic Safety
Safety Services
Arbill Safety
OBBCO Safety
Wayest Safety
Premier Safety
Industrial Safety Products
Pro-Am Safety
National Safety
Dooly Tackaberry
Safety Source NE
Northern Safety
Quad City Safety
Scientific Sales
Olympic Safety

About the Safety Marketing Group:

The Safety Marketing Group, located in Brooksville, Florida, is a network of dominant industrial safety equipment distributors in North America. Member companies are unified to furnish dedicated customer service and flexibility provided best by independent entrepreneurs, owned and operating on a local level. SMG is a corporation, organized as an industry cooperative, which is focused on group purchasing and group marketing of quality safety equipment products. SMG represents 60+ Distributor Members, 50+ Preferred and Associate Suppliers and over $750 Million in annual sales.

52 SMG Suppliers were represented and 61 SMG Distributors were in attendance at this years conference; 250+ Safety Specialists were on hand for the annual Business Meeting, Mini Trade Show, Distributor Principal Benchmarking Session, Awards Ceremony and Banquet on April 20th. The following two 1/2 were days suite to suite meetings for all of our Distributor and Suppliers.

SMG is a Cooperative which is Member Owned by our Independently Owned Safety Equipment Distributors with purchasing power of $900,000,000.00.