About Us

Celebrating
55 Years

MB Division is so grateful to the customers who have entrusted us with managing their supply chain over the past 55 years. We look forward to a future of prosperity and growth for all of our stakeholders.

Sourcing, importing, and managing critical production components since 1969

Our goal at MB is simple: leverage decades of supply chain expertise to drive our customer’s operational efficiency and accelerate growth. We know that if our customers are successful, we are successful. Our team has worked extremely hard to cultivate relationships with our clients where they consider us to be partners, and we will continue this methodology even as we scale into the future.

At the other end of the supply chain continuum are the strategic alliances we have forged with our global manufacturers. Our sourcing team has worked tirelessly to develop these relationships so we can offer a wide variety of best-in-class solutions to our customers.

If you would like to better understand our capabilities or discuss a new project, we invite you to visit us at our 50,000 sq-ft Headquarters in Spring Lake, MI.

 

Our History

Over the Years

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1895
  • Charles H. Adams starts American Brass Novelty Company in Grand Haven, MI. The company goes on to produce items such as furniture casters, pneumatic time stamps, refrigerator locks, automotive locks and hinges, sheet steel, and wire goods
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1931

 

  •  American Brass Novelty Company merges with Kuhnle-Winslow Manufacturing. The company begins manufacturing “brass goods” for the plumbing industry
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1950
  • The company drops the old novelty lines and adopts the name Michigan Brass Company
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1969
  • Jack Pimm (acting company president) purchases all assets of Michigan Brass Company and restructures the company
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1975
  • Doug & John Pimm join Michigan Brass and begin building the foundation of a global distribution network
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1977
  • P&D Sales is formed to operate in parallel to Michigan Brass Company and represent products produced both domestically and by global manufacturers in countries such as Germany, Isreal, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and the United States. P&D Sales begins selling into all major plumbing OEMs
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1978
  • Michigan Brass starts to source products in Asia, mostly from Taiwan
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1985
  • Michigan Brass forms a partnership with two Chinese Nationals and begins sourcing plumbing products from China

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1987
  • Michigan Brass completes construction of the 50,000 sq-ft headquarters in Spring Lake, MI
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2005
  • Melinda Vokal is the architect of establishing Michigan Brass Company’s WOFE (Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise) in Shunde, China. Laurie Feng joins MB / GB to head up operations in China. Melinda and Laurie qualify and develop the robust supply chain that MB Division relies on to this day
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2015
  • Michigan Brass is rebranded to MB Division as the company diversifies into markets outside of plumbing. The WOFE in China is rebranded as GB Division. Jake Pimm joins MB Division with a background in sales and finance
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2021
  •  Jake Pimm takes over as CEO and continues to lead MB’s OEM diversification
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2024
  • Andrew Voelker joins MB Division as a partner and Vice President of Sales & Marketing. Andrew joins with a background in the Automotive Industry and Supply Chain Management

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