Three Reasons Why Norton is theNumber One Brand in Abrasives

Three Reasons Why Norton is theNumber One Brandin Abrasives

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1Highest Quality: Whether you’re looking for a standard grade stock product for a maintenance operation, or the latest generation ofhigh-performance, custom-engineered abrasives for an ultra-precisionapplication, Norton can provide a high-quality solution.

Value Solution: Norton is the most trusted name in the industry.Our extensive training for distributors and/or application engineers canhelp develop the most cost-effective solutions for any grinding, cuttingand finishing abrasive application.

Single Source: Norton offers the most extensive line of bonded,coated and superabrasives of any abrasives’ supplier. A single sourcemeans significantly lower procurement costs. And we offer up to threelevels of performance for each product so you can match yourcustomers’ needs for price and productivity.

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High Quality Productsand Impeccable

Service Since 1972

High Quality Productsand Impeccable

Service Since 1972

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In today's dynamic industrial marketplace, you need a supplierthat is positioned to provide not only the most advanced productand technical support, but also one that is flexible and canprovide a wide range of value-added services. Since 1972,Haggard & Stocking has prided itself on doing just that. Wesupply a wide range of perishable tooling, material handling andrelated M.R.O.P. products from top manufacturers to clientsthroughout the Midwest and beyond. Plus, our technical supportand commercial capabilities make us uniquely qualified to helpyou drive down your total cost of doing business.

I hope the information presented in the following pages providesyou with an understanding of who we are and how we can serveyou. Whether it's high quality products, cost-saving solutions,integrated supply, vendor-managed inventory or commoditymanagement programs, we have what it takes to assist you.

Sincerely,

Herbert HaggardPresident & CEO

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Vision StatementTo develop and enhance partnerships with ourcustomers to help ensure our collective long-termgrowth and profitability.

Mission StatementThe mission of Haggard & Stocking Associates,Inc. is to communicate effectively with ourcustomers to determine the optimum products andservices to meet or exceed their expectations andto reduce their total operating costs.

Welcome toHaggard & StockingAssociates, Inc.

Corporate Headquarters Main Branch (Indianapolis)

Corporate Warehouse & Material Handling Office

State Safety & H&S Airlines Office

Fort Wayne Office

Who We AreFounded in 1972 as a manufacturing representative firm,Haggard & Stocking Associates, Inc. has enjoyed over 35years of consistent growth in the distribution business. Highquality products and impeccable service, along with acustomer-driven philosophy have made us one of theMidwest's largest and finest industrial suppliers. Customerrequests have opened up new opportunities for growth, whilenew attitudes towards partnering, vendor reduction andsingle sourcing have caused us to diversify our product linesand service capabilities to meet changing demands.

Haggard & Stocking is based in Indianapolis Indiana withadditional full-time branches in Fort Wayne Indiana andWaco Texas. We also maintain facilities in locations toserve customers in Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida,and other states. As our account base expands, wecontinue to add locations so that we can work in closeproximity to our expanding customer base. Thissubstantial investment is indicative of our commitment toour customers and part of Haggard & Stocking'sphilosophy of delivering personalized services. As wegrow, we continue to keep it personal, always taking thetime and effort to get to know and understand eachcustomer’s requirements, and build a program unique tothat operating environment. Our creative people, includingour owners, get involved and stay involved with eachcustomer over the long haul, applying our experience andexpertise to help you improve your bottom line.

What We DoHaggard & Stocking supplies the industrial marketplace witheverything from general MRO products to highly technicaltooling used in precision industrial machinery. We servicethe automotive, aerospace, foundry, machine tool, airline,heavy transportation, rail, woodworking and metal fabricationmarkets with the most advanced product and technicalsupport available. Since our inception, we have encouragedour customers to bring us their problem applications and letus be their problem solvers. Our engineers are adept atdeveloping cost cutting solutions, a specialty at Haggard &Stocking.

Our primary products include: cutting tools, bonded, coatedand super abrasives, band saw blades, vibratory anddeburring equipment, coolants, material handling, and safetyproducts. We represent over 750 top manufacturers andmaintain a multi-million dollar inventory. We fulfill themajority of orders within 24 hours of receipt, providingdelivery with our own fleet of delivery vehicles or throughdaily shipping utilizing a wide range of carriers.

Haggard & Stocking’s service divisions include: IndustrialTooling Products, Material Handling, and Integrated SupplySystems. We also offer safety products and consultingthrough our State Safety subsidiary.

Industrial ToolingHaggard & Stocking's customer-driven philosophy has madeus one of the finest and largest cutting tool and abrasivehouses in the Midwest. We offer cutting tools, abrasives andrelated M.R.O.P. products from the premiere manufacturersin their respective industries. These strong vendorrelationships allow us to provide our customers with a broadselection of quality products at highly competitive prices. Westock many of the items we sell at our facilities, assuringrapid delivery and reduced inventory costs for our customers.In addition, unlike others in our industry, all of our salespeople have been extensively trained by our primarysuppliers and are extremely competent technically. In today’sworld of “re-engineering” and “right sizing,” the fact that wecan come in and assist in engineering the application, notjust selling the product, makes us a valuable resource to ourcustomers.

Material HandlingIn July 1992, we added a Material Handling division to ourcompany, and it has continued to grow since its inception.This division offers expertise in everything from casters andshelving to "interactive warehousing" techniques and theproducts to support them. As always, we representmanufacturers of the highest quality products in this industry,and many items are in stock for immediate delivery. Fromimmediate solutions based on products from our inventory, tocustom designed solutions, Haggard & Stocking has theknow-how and experience to solve the most difficult materialhandling problems.

Integrated SupplySystems

"Vendor reduction" and "single sourcing" are commonbuzzwords in the business arena today. Companies seekingto cut costs and improve efficiency are looking to scale downtheir supplier base, and addressing these concerns is amajor focus of Haggard & Stocking. In fact, we’ve beensuccessfully developing integrated supply solutions since1985. We take pride in being able to offer a wide range ofcustom designed commercial solutions to our customers,with some forty integrated supply programs available.

Our integrated supply, commodity management, vendormanaged inventory and consignment programs create a fluidpartnership involving our customers, the manufacturers werepresent and Haggard & Stocking. We can fully manageyour MRO product needs, from monitoring product usage toplacing orders to vendor evaluation, resulting in significantlylower operating costs.

Utilizing bar coding, scanner guns, swipe card technology,automated tool dispensing machines or bin stocking, wespecialize in creating supply system solutions that addresseach customer's specific needs and concerns. We designthe solution around the customer, instead of forcing thecustomer to accept an “off–the–shelf” solution. Fewdistributors can offer a custom-tailored solution like Haggard& Stocking. Let our experience and success in supply chainmanagement work for you. We are fully EDI and EFT capablewith a web based B2B electronic catalog and purchasingsystem for use by a number of our customers.

State Safety & Compliance5328 Victory Drive • Indianapolis, Indiana 46203

Telephone: 317-423-7724 • Toll Free: 1-800-439-3764Fax: 317-423-7725

www.statesafety.com

IndianapolisWeld Center

The Weld Center allows Haggard & Stocking to buildcustom Lenox Bandsaw Blades, to Order, for manyapplications. With two Welding Machines, we have theability to make Blades that range from 3/8” to 2” CoilStock and from 5' to 30' in length.

We carry a variety of Coil Stock for many types of metalcutting and can build Blades within a normal 24 hour period,or, for emergencies, within 2 hours of Receipt of Order.

At this time, we are welding 750-800 Blades per month withcapacity to double production.

Safety Products& Consulting

Our subsidiary, State Safety & Compliance, can be yourpartner in reducing workplace mishaps and increasingworker productivity. SSC was started by actual safetymanagers who believed quality service and expertise weremissing from the safety distribution industry. SSC fills thatvoid, providing competitively priced, top-notch safetyequipment, while also being a valuable resource to ourcustomers. SSC’s sales staff includes people with real-worldindustrial safety experience, making us one of the fewcompanies with the ability to offer safety consulting alongwith safety products. We have access to several hundredsuppliers of safety products, with over 1600 items in stock,and we believe our expertise gives us the edge inrecommending the right products for each customer’sfacilities. Contact us today!

How We Do ItAt Haggard & Stocking, our flexibility and responsiveness toour customers has allowed us to grow from a one-personmanufacturer's representative firm to a high-powered andnationally recognized player in the industrial distributionindustry. Realizing that businesses are continually looking forbetter, more efficient ways to allocate their time, money, andresources, we have developed innovative programs to helpour customers do just that. The key to our success is ourability to develop mutually beneficial partnerships among us,our customers, and our manufacturers. Providing these valueadded services, together with our exceptional productselection and expert technical support makes Haggard &Stocking the most cost-effective choice to service yourproduction needs.

Award WinningCost Cutters

Our sales people are highly motivated to find cost savings forour customers and have compiled an impressive track recordfor doing so. Our winning of the prestigious American EagleAward validates our ability to implement documented costsavings and productivity improvements for the end user. Wewelcome the opportunity to apply our technical wizardry tohelp your business.

ImplementingIntegrated Supply

Contracts Through IBCA fine example of our success in partnering is illustrated byour association with IBC, one of the nation’s leading buyinggroups and providers of integrated supply agreements thatare national in scope. Haggard & Stocking, a multiple IBCaward-winner, is a key player in implementing theseagreements for some of IBC’s larger corporate members. Ourparticipation on the IBC team allows us to offer the benefits ofstrategic sourcing solutions to customers throughout the U.S,Canada, and Mexico. Plus, as an IBC partner, Haggard &Stocking can offer the benefits of minority credits to any ofour customers seeking a minority distributor. Our IBCaffiliation also exponentially increases our access to nationalvendors, while helping us offer very competitive pricing onthe products we offer.

Strong TechnologyAt Haggard & Stocking, we have tremendous experience inapplying technology to create innovative supply chainsolutions. There are many ways technology can play a rolein crafting integrated supply solutions, and our talentedpeople have the skills and knowledge to apply it creatively.We can handle any constraints the customer may face,including technology limitations.

At Haggard & Stocking, we manage our business with state-of-the-art software provided by Activant Solutions. OurActivant Prophet 21 Commerce Center software allows us toprovide superior service to our customers and tremendousflexibility to manage information. A highlight of our system isthe implementation of our B2B program that allows ourcustomers to enter orders directly with us through a webbased electronic catalog system.

INDIANAPOLIS CORPORATE OFFICEP.O. Box 240,

Beech Grove, Indiana 46151Telephone: 317-788-4661Toll Free: 800-622-4824

Fax: 317-788-1645

INDIANAPOLIS WAREHOUSE5318 Victory Drive

Indianapolis, Indiana 46203

FORT WAYNE BRANCH3508 Focus Drive

Fort Wayne, Indiana 46818Telephone: 260-490-4107

Fax: 260-490-4407

WACO TEXAS BRANCH7201 Santos Circle, Ste D

Waco, Texas 76712 Phone 254-741-6176FAX 254-741-9134

www.haggard-stocking.com

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INDIANAPOLIS CORPORATE OFFICEP.O. Box 240,

Beech Grove, Indiana 46151Telephone: 317-788-4661Toll Free: 800-622-4824

Fax: 317-788-1645

INDIANAPOLIS WAREHOUSE5318 Victory Drive

Indianapolis, Indiana 46203

FORT WAYNE BRANCH3508 Focus Drive

Fort Wayne, Indiana 46818Telephone: 260-490-4107

Fax: 260-490-4407

WACO TEXAS BRANCH7201 Santos Circle, Ste D

Waco, Texas 76712 Phone 254-741-6176FAX 254-741-9134

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