VAI (Vormittag Associates Inc.) named Dan Bivona sales director. Most recently he was vice president of sales at Dynax Solutions, where he spearheaded innovative software distribution initiatives. For more information,

Affiliated Distributors appointed Peter Classon to vice president of information technology. Previously, he was a founding member of the management consulting practice at LiquidHub before being promoted to director of

Plastic Trends has a newly designed Web site, www.plastictrends.com.

MEP Surplus introduced, www.MEPSurplus.com, which gives contractors the ability to buy and sell surplus plumbing, mechanical and electrical inventory online.

WennSoft, a provider of business management solutions that focus on equipment/fleet management, announced a number of promotions and an expansion to their executive management team.

This was the theme of the Intuit Eclipse user conference, which met in October at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate in ChampionsGate, FL.

Larry McMullin (left), Harry Cooper Supply, with David Merenbach of Intuit Eclipse.What do distributors want from their business management software systems?Intuit® Eclipse™ had some answers and invited feedback from its

Chip McClelland talks about IBM “System i” innovations and simplifying IT.Seventy-five percent of IT costs are spent managing infrastructure, according to IBM Senior Marketing Manager Chip McClelland. McClelland presented this

Schneider Electric's Square D® Lean Tools is a collection of Web calculators that allow facility managers, consulting engineers and operations managers to estimate potential energy savings to be gained by

Fluke Corp., manufacturer of handheld electronic test and measurement tools, announced a new family of digital multimeters including the Fluke 117 Electricians' Multimeter with non-contact voltage detection and the Fluke