Agency Sales June 2019 | Page 10

No Room for Complacency for Keller Industrial Products

Looking for an independent manufacturers’ rep firm that possesses the attributes that manufacturers look for and MANA touts? Look no further than Keller Industrial Products, Inc., of Clarence, New York. The agency, now in its eighty‐second year— and counting— can boast of deep roots in the territory it serves, not to mention a lengthy record of firm relationships with its principals that average more than 25 years of service. Buried in that average is the fact that Keller can trace its relationship with one principal back more than 50 years to 1966. The team at Keller Industrial Products, clockwise from left, Doug Martino, Paul Rozgonyi, Greg Matthews, Vin Nolan( partner at Keller), Abe Tibebu, Mike O’ Brien and Jim Rhoades.
According to Greg Matthews, a partner in the firm,“ You can look at the name Keller Industrial Products, and it’ s probably one of the least attractive business names there is. But we’ ve been here so long and people in the industry know who we are— we’ ve got no intention of changing it.”