In article , "J. Clarke" wrote:

Lab Safety Supply is the parent company of WW Grainger.

Actually, it's the other way around. From the press release you cite below:

"Grainger, a leading North American industrial distributor, today announced
its Lab Safety Supply (LSS) subsidiary has acquired substantially all of the
assets of McFeely’s Square Drive Screws of Lynchburg, Virginia. [...]"

I'm not sure
that a hardware company getting taken over by Grainger is a bad thing
at all, especially if they keep the brands separate, which they seem
to be planning to do.

Here's the press release:

http://www.labsafety.com/aboutus/pressrel.htm#mcfeely



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