Motion Industries Branch Named ``Best in Show'' At Business and Industry Trade Show

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--July 17, 2001--Motion Industries' Thomasville, Georgia, branch recently participated in the Thomasville 2001 Business and Industry Trade Show. The Motion Industries exhibit was voted best among the service businesses represented and also named overall "Best of Show," according to Mark Sheehan, Motion Industries' Group Vice President for North, East, and Southeast Divisions. The event was held at the Southwest Georgia Technical College.
    One of more than 60 exhibitors, Motion Industries received recognition as "Best of Show" for booth design and display coupled with the professionalism exhibited by the team members: branch manager Bill Horn, Jr., operations manager Maureen Weier, outside sales representative Joe Dupree, and fluid and electrical power specialist Phil Davis. The Motion Industries team ran demonstrations of the online procurement site www.MotionMRO.com on laptops set up at the booth. From the site, customers can determine availability of more than two million parts, order online, and check order status 24/7/365.
    With 2000 sales in excess of $2.34 billion, Motion Industries is the world's largest distributor of bearings, mechanical power transmission, electrical power transmission and fluid power transmission replacement parts, and hose products. Motion Industries, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company , has more than 500 operations including nine distribution centers throughout North America and services more than 150,000 customers including automotive, chemical, food, beverage, wood/lumber, iron, oil, pulp and paper, steel and textile industries.
    Visit Motion Industries' Web sites at www.motionindustries.com and www.motionmro.com. Contact us toll-free at 800/526-9328.