About

Headquarters: Bedford, MA
2014 Revenues: $908 million
Change in Sales from 2013: 8.4%
Employees: 1,900
Locations: 83
Number of New Locations: 1
2014 Acquisitions: Watertown Supply
Key Executives: John Pope, owner; Jeff Pope, president; Bob Mucciarone, COO; Ruth Martin, director, HR; Mike Michaud, director, IT; Ernie Coutermarsh, SVP, industrial business development; Ed Welch, SVP, purchasing; John Provencal, SVP, Plg/Htg; Brendan Monaghan, director, operations; Joe Fernandez, SVP, HVAC/Refrigeration

F.W. Webb Co. is composed of several divisions: FW Webb Co.; Frank Webb’s Bath Center, a showroom; Webb USCO, for industrial plastic piping products and equipment; Victor, for LP gas products; Webb Bio-Pharm, focused on the bioprocessing components for the pharmaceutical and bio-tech markets in the Northeast; Webb Fire Protection; Webb Kentrol/Sevco, focused on automated valves, process controls, overpressure protection and engineered systems; Webb Pump; and Webb Water Systems.

The company is seeing strength in high-end plumbing showrooms, e-commerce, commercial construction, bio-pharmaceutical and high purity plastic PVF. Weakness include fossil fuel power and pulp & paper.

The company is focused this year on industrial thermoplastics and industrial/commercial pumps while it works to overcome its chief challenge of keeping pace with technology.

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