Dayton, OH-based Winsupply, No. 7 on Industrial Distribution's 2019 Big 50 List — announced Wednesday that it has purchased Industrial Equipment & Parts, a Plymouth, MN-based distributor of heavy industrial pumps. Details of the asset purchase were not disclosed.
"Industrial Equipment & Parts has carved out a special niche as a value-added provider of industrial pumps to its customers," said Monte Salsman, president of Winsupply Acquisitions Group. "Scott Koontz began as an applications engineer who rapidly moved up to sales, then as sales leader, and ultimately as general manager. He has a highly skilled team of industrial experts to serve their customers in Minnesota, Iowa, North and South Dakota and Wisconsin. Now Scott is making a substantial investment as minority owner of the company with Winsupply as majority owner so he can share in the company's success."
Industrial Equipment & Parts' legal name becomes Winsupply of Plymouth, MN Co., but will continue to do business as Industrial Equipment & Parts.
"This same model of shared success drives our business vision at Industrial Equipment & Parts," Koontz said. "We align with our customers to understand their goals as a first step toward helping them realize their process system's full potential. Then we prescribe the best equipment to meet that potential. We become partners by instilling confidence, through success, to tackle their next challenges together. As the local company president, one of my primary responsibilities is to make the best choices I can towards protecting everyone's investments, including my own."
Winsupply said Koontz will have autonomy as president and entrepreneur of Industrial Equipment & Parts, responsible for making local decisions that he believes are best for his company and his board of directors.
