Ritz Safety, an industrial safety supply distributor headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, has purchased the assets and business of Safety Source Inc., based in Mobile, Ala. Safety Source’s operations include two sales and distribution centers providing safety products and services. The company has served the Gulf Coast region for more than 20 years.
Ritz Safety provides products such as boots, cold weather gear, construction products, eye and face protection, fall protection equipment, gas detectors and meters, safety glasses and cut-resistant gloves, head protection, hearing protection, rain gear, storage and containment, traffic safety, water safety, welding safety equipment and more. With the acquisition of Safety Source, Ritz will continue to position the combined organization as a local, regional, and national supplier to the industrial, agricultural, construction, mining, manufacturing, service, waste, oil and gas, shipbuilding and other industries.
The transaction brings the number of Ritz Safety sales and distribution centers to eight: Pompano Beach, Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla.; Indianapolis; Houston; Las Vegas and Mobile. Ritz supplies more than 5,000 national and international customers monthly, and stocks more than 25,000 safety products.
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Michael Roth
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.