Safety Marketing Group (SMG), the world's largest consortium of independently owned safety equipment distributors, today released names of the Annual Partnership Conference Award Winners. These Awards includes Peak Performer Awards (Supplier and Distributor of the year), JMA (Joint Marketing Agreement) Awards, Award of Excellence, and GOLD Distributors and Suppliers.

The winners were announced during the Joint Session at the group’s annual conference held at the Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, Nevada on April 28, 2014.

They are as follows:

JMA (Joint Marketing Agreement) Award

• DiVal Safety (Distributor)
• Protective Industrial Products (Supplier)

Supplier of the Year: Peak Performers

• Cordova Safety Products
• Kimberly Clark
• National Safety Apparel
• Protective Industrial Products
• Radians
• Tingley Rubber

Distributor of the Year: Peak Performers

• Guardian Safety and Supply, LLC
• National Safety
• Quad City Safety, Inc.
• Safety Products, Inc.
• Scientific Sales, Inc.
• Wise Safety and Environmental

Award of Excellence

• Rayhsa Vallejo
• Seguridad Regiomontana

Gold Suppliers

Gold Distributors

5 Year Gold Distributors and Suppliers:

Accuform Manufacturing

Arbill

Capital Safety

Dooley Tackaberry, Inc.

Ergodyne

Industrial Safety Products

Lone Star Safety

Medsafe

National Safety

Northern Safety

OBBCO Safety and Supply

Pro-Am Safety, Inc.

Protective Industrial Products

Radians

Safety Products, Inc.

Safety Services, Inc.

SafetyWear, div. of Sullivan Brough, Inc.

Stauffer Glove & Safety

Tingley Rubber

Wise Safety & Environmental

About the Safety Marketing Group

The Safety Marketing Group, located in Brooksville, Florida, is a network of dominant industrial safety equipment distributors in North America. Member companies are unified to furnish dedicated customer service and flexibility provided best by independent entrepreneurs, owned and operating on a local level. SMG is a corporation, organized as an industry cooperative, which is focused on group purchasing and group marketing of quality safety equipment products. SMG represents 55+ Distributor Members, 45+ Preferred and Associate Suppliers and over $900 Million in annual sales.

45 + SMG Suppliers were represented and 55 + SMG Distributors were in attendance at this year’s conference; 300 + Safety Specialists were on hand for the annual Business Meeting, which was held on Monday, April 28, 2014.  The following two days were “suite to suite” meetings for all of our Distributor and Suppliers.

SMG is a Cooperative which is Member Owned by our Independently Owned Safety Equipment Distributors with purchasing power of $900,000,000.00.

For more information on SMG please go to www.smgna.com