PRINTER'S NO. 3061
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
717
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY ROTHMAN, KIM, HENNESSEY, NEILSON, COOK, WARD,
KINSEY, READSHAW, SAYLOR, MILLARD, HEFFLEY, DiGIROLAMO,
BURNS, KAUFER AND MARSICO, MARCH 6, 2018
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
MARCH 6, 2018
A RESOLUTION
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of D&H
Distributing.
WHEREAS, D&H Distributing, a leading computer products and
consumer electronics distributor headquartered in Harrisburg, is
celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2018; and
WHEREAS, D&H Distributing was founded in 1918, when Dave
Schwab and Harry Spector opened Economy Tire and Rubber, a tire
retreading business in Williamsport; and
WHEREAS, Economy Tire and Rubber changed its name to D&H
Distributing in 1929, at the same time it began selling radios,
a product that would sustain the company through the Great
Depression; and
WHEREAS, D&H Distributing has a history of adapting to
economic changes, from filling the need for industrial products
through two world wars to accommodating the emerging computer
industry in the 1980s by selling the first Commodore computers;
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WHEREAS, One of the largest employers in central
Pennsylvania, D&H Distributing employs more than 1,200 employee
co-owners at its locations in this Commonwealth and in
California, Georgia, Illinois and Ontario; and
WHEREAS, Since 2009, D&H Distributing has been on the Forbes
list of America's largest private companies and has risen every
year in those rankings; and
WHEREAS, D&H Distributing continues to pioneer markets,
deliver innovative technology and develop areas of opportunity
to position itself and its employee co-owners for success in its
second century; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives commemorate the
100th anniversary of the founding of D&H Distributing.
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