OUR HISTORY Home Our History Tom Fleming, founder of Distribution Management, spent five years of his career selling typewriters for IBM in downtown St. Louis. Missouri. From this experience, Tom recognized the demand for replacement ribbons and in 1972, All-state Business Machines (ABM) was born as a reseller of typewriter ribbons. Tom, the only employee at the time, would go door-to-door among downtown businesses to take orders on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, would return with deliveries on Tuesdays and Thursdays and would prepare and mail invoices on Saturdays. ABM proved to be a reliable partner within the industry and, with the rapid growth of desktop publishing and business printing, became a source of products for other resellers. This led to the evolution of what is known today as Distribution Management and its subsidiary Supplies Network. In 2010, Tom moved into the role of Chairman handing over the CEO reigns to Sean Fleming who championed the launch of DM Fulfillment Services, the company’s third-party fulfillment division. It is with great pride that today Distribution Management still reflects the values-based approach set forth by our founder, Tom Fleming. Led by CEO Sean Fleming, President Greg Welchans and our leadership team, those values guide every decision to create a foundation of operational and distribution excellence and reinforce our company culture — agile, creative, collaborative, progressive, and customer-centric. 1972 ABM founded as typewriter ribbon reseller 1979 ABM Federal launched 1991 Supplies Network launched and was awarded Lexmark Tier 1 Distributor Contract 1993 Awarded HP Tier 1 Distributor Contract Survived "great flood" - HQ under 9 ft. of water 1998 Began development of custom operating warehouse management system Previous Next Privacy Policy Career Opportunities Our team at Distribution Management is seeking enthusiastic, career-oriented people to come work with us. Call Human Resources at (800) 405-4745 or click to learn more. Contact Us phone: (800) 405-4745 Email Us © 2021 Distribution Management

CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY Home Corporate Responsibility Disaster Recovery and Security Click Here to Read More We use a variety of mainstream, robust technologies to protect our company and our customers' business from risk, including major disasters. Green Initiatives Click Here to Read More We promote sustainability and minimization of the adverse environmental impacts of our operations through relationships with our key suppliers and manufacturers, as well as internal "green" policies. Reforestation Click Here to Read More Distribution Management and its partners have collectively offset printed pages paper consumption by reforesting 8,500 trees to date. Privacy Policy Career Opportunities Our team at Distribution Management is seeking enthusiastic, career-oriented people to come work with us. Call Human Resources at (800) 405-4745 or click to learn more. Contact Us phone: (800) 405-4745 Email Us © 2021 Distribution Management