“The industry widely recognizes the distinction of being named a WIT Approved Source,” said Tony Dubreville, President and CEO of Trade Service. “We appreciate the opportunity to be endorsed by WIT in a way that their members value.”

Today, exchanging information in the PHCP industry has challenges. Manufacturers are burdened with communicating their product and price changes, while distributors face high costs to aggregate and normalize information in a format they can use. Now, Trade Service can offer WIT distributors and manufacturers the ability to synchronize the supply chain by providing accurate, up-to-date content that is compatible with distributor software systems.

“Trade Service is a familiar name to our members, however the potential for aggregated, normalized, and integrated information is not fully realized,” said Chuck Zweck, Director of MIS, WIT & Co., “Our primary goal in partnering with Trade Service is to demonstrate our belief that their solutions support our vision of reducing cost and increasing efficiency in the PHCP supply chain.”

About Trade Service
Trade Service Corporation is the leading provider of standardized product and price information to the electrical, plumbing/PVF, HVACR, industrial MRO, and office products industries. Since 1931, the company has been the leader in content acquisition, aggregation, management, publishing, and distribution, offering a variety of products, services, and systems to meet the content needs of over 20,000 distributors, contractors, government agencies and “buy side” Fortune 1000 subscribers. The range of solutions provided includes printed directories, electronic catalogs, pricing data for business system updating, and robust attributed content to fuel full-functioning Internet storefronts. For more information, visit www.tradeservice.com.