Gary Welch, an industrial parts distributor, decided to change careers the night he went to Valley Children's Hospital here to watch his sister work.

From there, they evolved into a parts distributor with a European network.

For over 50 years, Spring Valley was the site of a military parts distributor, Sarafan Auto Supply, which supplied military parts all around the world.

The founders of Activant created a computer, the Series 10, that used new, cost-effective disk drives to store the inventory information for the automotive parts distributors.

It is suspected, that it was introduced by overseas shipping containers being delivered to Yazaki North America, an automotive parts distributor.

The parts distributor was out of supply, a spokesman said.

In 1982, he started Western States Parts and Equipment, a heavy equipment and parts distributor.

His father, also retired, owned the C. F. Group, a mail-order automotive parts distributor in Farmingdale, N.Y.

Her father is the president and chief executive of the Milex Electronics Corporation, a parts distributor in Hauppauge, N.Y.

The company was also the official parts distributor for Borvig lifts.