For Immediate Release:

PROTECTIVE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS, INC. RECOGNIZED AS SUPPLIER OF THE YEAR

Protective Industrial Products, Inc. (PIP), a leading supplier of gloves to industrial distributors throughout the United States, was awarded by Affiliated Distributors (AD) as the Supplier of the Year for Performance. This is a distinctive honor in the industrial supplier industry and it comes as a result of hard work in support of some of our most important customers - the Affiliates of the AD organization.

Two other awards were in Leadership and went to Sorbent Products Company and Black & Decker/DeWALT. PIP's award was based on our superior performance when compared to the likes of Black & Decker/DeWALT, Rust-Oleum, CooperTools, Danaher Tools, Osborn International Brush, Brady and many other well-established industrial products manufacturers.