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B&D Industrial Celebrates Sixty Years in Business
06/07/2007 | 13:28:35
MACON (June 7, 2007) – B&D Industrial marks a successful sixty years in business since John Nations founded the company in 1947. The B&D Industrial holding company humbly began as Bearings and Drives (often casually referred to as "B &D"), with a single location operation in Griffin, Georgia.Over the next sixty years the company expanded and acquired other companies and has grown to employ approximately 350 people at 40 branch locations in Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama.
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B&D Industrial Acquires Simco Technologies
02/17/2007 | 09:05:18
For Immediate Release MACON (February 07, 2007) -B&D Industrial announces its acquisition of Simco Technologies, a leading Atlanta-based distributor of industrial electronics, sensors, drives, motion control, machine safety and machine vision systems.
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Bearings and Drives Chairman John Nations Leaves a Legacy
10/26/2006 | 10:41:48
MACON (October 26, 2006) -Bearings and Drives has just lost its beloved founder and Chairman of the Board, John Drewry Nations. Mr. Nations, 88, died Tuesday, October 10, 2006.
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B&D Industrial Wins Georgia Family Business of the Year Award
05/01/2005 | 08:53:44
May 2005 MACON, GA - B&D Industrial is proud to announce that it is the winner in the "large business" category of the Georgia Family Business of the Year award. The Cox Family Enterprise Center, based at the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University, selects winners each year from over 1,000 applications.
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