Congratulations to Tim Amalfa on his promotion to Vice President, Warehousing effective January 1st, 2010. Tim has been with the company since April 10th, 2006 and previously managed the Retail Distribution division. Tim has a large and varied amount of experience in the Warehousing and Distribution industry. His technical and leadership skills are a welcomed asset to the Warehousing division, the organization, and compliment the management structure. We are highly confident he will continue his successes within this organization in his new role.

We also bid a fond farewell to Rich Forbes, former Vice President Warehousing, upon his retirement. Rich had been with the company since June 8th, 1992. His guidance, business acumen, and spiritual convictions will sorely be missed. We wish the best of luck to Rich in all of his future endeavors.

September 30^th, 2009 saw the arrival of a very large piece of machinery at our rail siding at 311 Industry Ave., Springfield, MA.  The 260,000 lb Ajax Press, shipped by CSX rail from Lansing, MI destined for Smith & Wesson, was off-loaded at our location by multiple heavy lift cranes and specialized transport equipment on October 1^st.  The location of our facilities provides advantages not only for warehousing and trucking transportation, but also provides local industry a convenient location for special projects such as this intermodal transfer.

Bringing increased efficiencies and looking forward to strategic growth, the newly implemented WMS package ACCELLOS was brought online at our Progress Ave. warehouse location on Monday August 17, 2009. This addition to our technology will provide interactive product information improvements to both the Sullivan Companies and customers. This facility is now 100% RF covered to allow for immediate stock transactions.