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Local News - Local News - August 30, 2012
Brown Bearing Co. acquired by Cleveland-based BDI
Global distributor buys long-time Spokane-based supplier, retains workers

By Mike McLean
Of the Journal of Business

Bill and Rene' Andres have sold Brown Bearing Co., a Spokane-based bearing and mechanical-transmission product retailer, to BDI, a Cleveland-based global industrial supply distributor, says Robyn Stern, Brown Bearing's new operations manager.

The Andreses had owned and operated 60-year-old Brown Bearing here since 1979, says Stern, who is their daughter. The couple continues to own the land and 11,000-square-foot building at 5424 E. Trent that Brown Bearing, now operating as a divi...


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