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Interline Brands, Inc., headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, is one of the largest wholesale distributors and direct marketers of maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products for non-industrial businesses in the United States. Interline Brands distributes a broad range of products such as HVAC, janitorial supplies, plumbing supplies and security supplies. Interline Brands first began as Wilmar and merged with Barnett in 2000 forming an umbrella company called Interline Brands. Gradually Interline Brands diversified their customer base through the acquisitions of propane supplier Leran Gas Products and janitorial supply distributors AmSan and JanPak. In 2015 Interline Brands merged five of its janitorial brands into one unified brand called SupplyWorks.〔Funk, Dale: ("Interline Brands Files for IPO" ) Electrical Wholesaling, July 1, 2004〕〔("Interline Brands, Inc." ) Hoovers Business Intelligence, Company overview〕 On July 22, 2015 The Home Depot acquired Interline Brands for $1.6 billion. ==History== The origin of Interline Brands first began with ''Wilmar Supply Co'' in 1978. Wilmar was a hardware store in Collingswood, New Jersey founded by Martin Green and his son William Green. To expand it's business beyond retail it began selling MRO products to area apartment complexes and then expanded geographically by distributing to multi-family housing businesses. Wilmar went public in 1996 and purchased 14 regional competing businesses before acquiring the ''Sexauer Group'', a well-known and established distributor, in 1999. A leveraged buyout in May, 2000 took the company private in preparation for the next stage of growth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.svoco.com/news/pr20.html )〕 Wilmar approached ''Barnett, Inc.'' about merging because the two businesses were very similar, but each targeted a different customer base. Wilmar's customers performed facility maintenance, while Barnett sold to locksmiths, retail hardware and contractors. The two joined in September 2000 and named the umbrella company, Interline Brands.〔Olsztynski, Jim: ("Interline Brands’ Unique Vision" ) Supply House Times, May 4, 2004〕 Their guiding principle was to "change as little as possible about the way our customers currently do business with us".〔("History" ) Interline Brands, About Us〕 Each of the businesses (including Sexauer) retained their identity from the customer's point of view, including salesmen, telephone numbers, products, etc. They realized the value of each company's brand, and preserved sales/marketing relationships built over the years. What did change was behind the scenes in accounting, distribution and administration, realizing economies of scale. In 2000, Interline had a total of 76 distribution centers, which they were able to shrink to 56 in 2004. A national distribution center in Nashville, Tennessee was opened in 2001, reducing the inventory required at the local distribution centers and improving delivery times.〔 In late 2004 Interline went public as NYSE:IBI but was later delisted in September 2012 to become privatized.〔〔("Interline Brands, Inc." ) Interline Brands, Inc. Stockholders Approve Adoption of Merger Agreement, August 28, 012〕 To further expand the business of Interline the firm acquired several distributors of cleaning supplies. It first acquired American Sanitary or ''AmSan'' in May 2006 for $127.5 million. ''Cleansource'', a regional distributor of JanSan products, was acquired in October 2010 for $60.1 million. A regional supplier of cleaning and packaging solutions called ''JanPak'' was acquired in 2012 for $82 million. On March 16, 2015 Interline merged AmSan, CleanSource, JanPak, Trayco, and Sexauer into a new national brand called ''SupplyWorks''. ''AF Lighting'' was also sold to Almo Corporation in March 2015 because lighting was a minimal part of the business of Interline Brands. The Home Depot acquired Interline Brands in July 2015 for $1.6 billion from P2 Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs' private equity arm, and the management of Interline Brands.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Interline Brands」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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