The Associations

MANAMANA

    MANA has functioned as a horizontal organization for reps and their principals, offering membership to any firm that is willing to ascribe to our Code of Ethics . We feel that we’ve had a positive impact on the unique relationship that is the rep/principal method of going to market. While our sister associations also promote this business partnership approach to marketing, they have tended to do so on a targeted basis, expending their resources in a given industry or geographic market. MANA has, and will continue to focus on the broader picture of education, making its presence known at the state, national, and international levels. At the same time, MANA lends its support to these sister organizations and helps fund the Manufacturers’ Representative Educational Research Foundation (MRERF) in education regarding the profession.

    MANA’s mission is, through a major emphasis on education, to aid in the development and promotion of mutually profitable relationships, ethical standards of behavior and interdependence among multi-line professional sales representatives, their principals and their joint customers.

    MANA’s vision is to become the foremost source of information, knowledge and wisdom about the outsourced sales method of marketing.

    Contact MANA for more information at the following:

    • Manufacturers’ Agents National Association
      23016 Mill Creek Drive,
      P.O. Box 3467
      Laguna Hills, CA 92654-3467
    • Phone (949) 859-4040
      Toll Free 1-877-626-2776
      Fax (949) 855-2973
    • E-mail: mana@manaonline.org
      Website: http://ww.manaonline.org

SEMAASEMAA

    The Safety Equipment Manufacturers' Agents Association (SEMAA), the safety equipment affiliate of NIRA (NorthAmerican Industrial Representatives Association), is a trade association of manufacturers' representatives of industrial safety products organized to:

    • Create and foster a spirit of mutual respect and esteem among members and others within the industry and other industries; and
    • Educate the industry and other industries as to the advantages of doing business through manufacturers' representatives; and
    • Promote, protect and improve the multiple-line representative function and provide benefits and services to its members.

    In furtherance of these objectives, the Association develops and participates in programs and activities for manufacturers' representatives designed to elevate ethical standards, improve business operations and provide more efficient service to principals, customers and the industry. To implement these goals, the members of SEMAA are expected to:

    • Represent only those lines that they can effectively market and sell
    • Maintain a fiscally stable firm
    • Operate a well managed firm
    • Never degrade or malign or make false representations of a fellow representative

    Contact SEMAA for more information at the following:

SEMAASTAFDA

    The Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association (STAFDA) is an international trade association composed of distributors and manufacturers, and rep agents of light construction, industrial and related products. STAFDA members also include publishers of industry press serving the construction and industrial trades.

    Purpose of STAFDA

    • Encourage legal, ethical and friendly business relations, and to maintain and enhance competition within the industry.
    • Promote a better understanding of the economic value of the functions performed by distributors of power tools, construction fasteners, and related accessories among customers and suppliers.
    • Conduct Research for the benefit of the membership as a whole, and to develop ways and means of increasing the value of distribution to the free enterprise system.
    • Develop and promote programs to educate the members on the importance of the wholesale distribution channel leading to an efficient and competitive economy.
    • Collect and Disseminate statistical information to participating companies without reference to individual members. The primary purpose of these reports is to promote efficient and competitive operations. 
    • Advise members of legislation, regulations and lobbying efforts affecting their business.
    • Exert its best efforts toward the development of a more effective, efficient and economical wholesale distribution channel.
    • Cooperate with other organizations in a legal and ethical manner.
    • Ensure the accomplishment of any objectives or purposes herein set forth or which shall be recognized as proper and lawful objectives of this Association, all of which shall be consistent with public interest and in the interest of the specialty distribution industry.

    Contact STAFDA for more information at the following:

    • Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association
      P.O. Box 44, Elm Grove, Wisconsin 53122
    • (262) 784-4774; (800) 352-2981; FAX (262) 784-5059
    • E-Mail: info@stafda.org
      World Wide Web: http://www.stafda.org

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