Vendor NewsSafety Marketing Group (SMG), the world's largest consortium of independently owned safety equipment distributors, today released names of the Annual Partnership Conference Award Winners. These Awards includes Peak Performer Awards (Supplier and Distributor of the year), JMA (Joint Marketing Agreement) Awards, Award of Excellence, and GOLD Distributors and Suppliers.

The winners were announced during the Joint Session at the group’s annual conference held at the Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, Nevada on April 15, 2013.

They are as follows:

JMA (Joint Marketing Agreement) Award

  • Wise Safety & Environmental (Distributor)
  • Capital Safety (Supplier)

Supplier of the Year: Top 5 Peak Performers

  • Capital Safety
  • Cordova Safety Products
  • DuPont Personal Protection
  • Tingley Rubber
  • West Chester Holdings

Distributor of the Year: Top 5 Peak Performers

  • Arbill Safety
  • Northern Safety
  • Safety Products, Inc.
  • Safety Services, Inc.
  • Wise Safety and Environmental

Award of Excellence

  • Rayhsa Vallejo
  • Seguridad Regiomontana

Gold Suppliers

Accuform Manufacturing

Capital Safety

Complete Environmental Products, Inc.

Cordova Safety Products

DuPont Personal Protection

Ergodyne & Basic Issue

Protective Industrial Products

Radians

Se-Kure Domes

Tingley Rubber

West Chester Holdings, Inc.

Zoll Medical

Gold Distributors

AGS Safety and Supply

Alabama Safety Products, Inc.

Arbill

Bennett, Bowen, & Lighthouse

Broner Glove & Safety Company

Day Star Safety Corporation

DiVal Safety Equipment, Inc.

Dooley Tackaberry, Inc.

Guardian Safety and Supply, LLC

Industrial Safety Products

Interstate Safety & Supply, Inc.

IWS Gas and Supply

Lone Star Safety

Medsafe

Midwestern Safety Equipment Co., Inc.

National Safety

Northern Safety

OBBCO Safety & Supply Co.

Premier Safety

Pro-Am Safety

Quad City Safety, Inc.

Reliable Safety Solutions

Rocky Mountain Industrial Supply, Inc.

Safety Products, Inc.

Safety Services, Inc.

Safety Source, Inc.

Safety Supply Illinois

Safetywear, div. of Sullivan Brough, Inc.

Saf-T-Gard International

Sanderson Safety Supply

Stagg Safety Equipment, Inc.

Stauffer Glove & Safety

Wise Safety and Environmental

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 55+ Distributor Members, 45+ Preferred and Associate Suppliers and over $900 Million in annual sales.

45 + SMG Suppliers were represented and 55 + SMG Distributors were in attendance at this year’s conference; 300 + Safety Specialists were on hand for the annual Business Meeting, which was held on Monday, April 15, 2013.  The following two days were “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.

For more information on SMG please go to www.smgna.com