Motion Industries Announces New Web Site to Purchase Industrial Products

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--Dec. 4, 2002--Motion Industries, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company , has created a web site for procurement of industrial products. With the new web site, www.MiIndustrial.com, customers can purchase Motion Industries' Mi Industrial entire product offering online.
    "Adding the availability of our general industrial MRO supplies online enables us to give our customers a higher level of service," said Motion Industries president and chief executive officer Bill Stevens. "Providing this site with ordering capabilities extends the options customers have to purchase the products they need."
    Motion Industries strives to simplify e-procurement for customers. Customers can now access extensive product information for the Mi Industrial product offering of safety supplies, janitorial sanitary supplies, janitorial industrial wipers, hand tools, shop supplies, and maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) chemicals. At MiIndustrial.com, customers can search for product price and availability, request quotes, enter orders, receive e-mail order confirmation and track order status.
    With 2001 sales in excess of $2.2 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 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 our websites at www.motionindustries.com, www.miIndustrial.com and www.motionmro.com. Contact us toll-free at (800) 526-9328.