Newport News, Va.-based Ferguson purchased Linwood Pipe and Supply Co., based in Detroit, and Hanco Plumbing Supply of Ashland, Ky. Both companies were acquired through asset transactions.
Goulds Pumps, ITT Industries, will be the title sponsor of the NASCAR Busch Series race at "The World's Fastest Mile," beginning with the Goulds Pumps, ITT Industries 200 on May 17-18, 2003.
A fundraiser has been scheduled for Brad Sell, a 33-year veteran of the plumbing, heating, cooling and piping distribution industry, who is battling prostate cancer that was diagnosed about two years ago.
Lee Martin, former president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of NIBCO INC., died March 26 at the age of 83, in Naples, Fla.