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AlliedSignal and Honeywell have signed a merger agreement that will create a global technology company with revenues of $25 billion.

The National Association of Whilesaler-Distributors has issued a legal advisory regarding claims by a patent owner that the use of bar-code reading equipment in wholesale distribution and other industries for warehousing, inventory control, distribution and point-of-sale transactions may constitute infringement on its patent.

The anticipated founding group of Supply America Group has been expanded by three companies and now numbers seven.

A draft ergonomics standard released by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Adminsitration is being reviewed for its impact on small business.

Tyco International has agreed to purchase Central Sprinkler Corp. in a transaction valued at about $115 million.

Wolverine Tube's Ardmore, Tenn., manufacturing facility received the Silver STAG Award from ITT Hartford Insurance for maintaining an injury-free workplace throughout 1998.

The officers and board members of the Pacific Southwest Distributors Association and the Western Suppliers Association recently agreed to "pursue and implement" a combined annual meeting by the spring of 2001.

Westburne executed a letter of intent for a strategic alliance between its Industrial Products Group in Canada and Apex Industrial Supply Ltd., an industrial supply distributor based in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Distributors and their partners in the supply chain are about three years into a revolution that will change the way companies do business.

The American Supply Association is telling its wholesaler and manufacturer members to stop talking about e-commerce and "just do it."