2018

• Exceeded $5 Billion in Sales
• Randall (Randy) P. Breaux was named President - North America
• "Our customers' needs and the way they want to be served continue to change. We must 'accept the challenge,' finding innovative ways to bring new solutions and increased value to them - better and faster than our competition - to further expand our leadership position."
  — Randy Breaux
• EIS Joins Motion
• Motion acquires
  • Axis
  • Hydraulic Supply Company
  • Power Industries

2017

• Motion acquires:
  • Numatic Engineering
  • Apache
• Mi's Jim Williams elected 2018 PTDA President
• Mi Dallas DC moves to new facility

2016

• Motion acquires:
  • Obbco Safety & Supply, LLC
  • Missouri Power Transmission
  • Epperson and Company
  • Braas Company
  • Colmar Belting Company
• Mi's Pensacola Service Center achieves Timken Bearing Platinum-Level Certification
• Mi launches Bearings.com and relaunches The Motor Specialist Website
• Mi launches Renewable Energy Segment Initiative

2015

• Effective November 17, 2014, Tim Breen was named President/CEO and Bill Stevens Chairman (and served as Chairman until his retirement in March 2015)
• ...our Motion family. I don't use that word for any other reason than that's how I feel... it's always been a family. Working side-by-side every day, we're making a difference and taking care of customers... I'm proud to be part of this family.
  —Timothy Breen
• Motion acquires:
  • Miller Bearings, Inc
  • Oil and Gas Supply
  • Moss Rubber and Equipment Corporation
  • Lake Eerie Abrasive & Tool

2014

• Motion acquires
  • Commercial Solutions, Inc

2013

• In September 2013, Tim Breen was named President and COO, while Bill Stevens was named Chairman & CEO
• Motion opens over 550 Locations in North America
• Motion acquires
  • Paragon Service & Supply, Inc
  • AST

2012

• MiHow2 video series launches in 2012

2011

• Sales exceed $4 billion

2009

• Motion acquires:
  • General Tool & Supply Co.
  • BC Bearing Engineers & U.S. Bearings & Things
  • TechCan
  • DP Brown
  • Dayton Supply and Tool
  • Tarrant Hydraulic Services, LLC

2008

• Launch of www.motion.com
• Motion acquires:
  • Mill Supply Corporation
  • Monroe Rubber & Plastic Supply
  • Drago Supply

2007

• Motion aqcuires:
  • Jonesboro Bearing & Supply
  • Canco Hose & Fittings
  • Gerrish Bearings
  • GBC-PACIFIC
  • Meier Transmission
  • Shuster Corporation

2006

• Motion opens over 500 Locations in North America
• Motion acquires
  • Don Hills Company
  • Lewis Supply Company
  • Ruston Industrial
  • Hydraulic Depot

2001

• Motion launches business group for Industrial Supplies with the acquisition of Voorhies Supply Co., LLC
• Motion acquires
  • Staley Supply
  • MBS Bearing Services, Inc

1997

• Motion opens 499 locations in North America and first Puerto Rico branch opens
• www.motionMRO.com launches first transactional website for Mi
• Michael S. Gaffney named Chairman/CEO & William J. Stevens named President/COO
• "I think people are the one thing that makes us different... I just think we have the best people in the business"
• William J. Stevens succeeded Michael S. Gaffney as President/CEO — William J Stevens, 1997

1994

• Motion expands into Canada with Oliver Industrial Supply

1993

• 325 Locations Exceed $1 Billion in sales
• Motion acquires:
  • Midcap Bearing
  • Power Drives & Bearing
  • Atlantic Tracy
  • Capstan, Inc.
  • Amarillo Bearing
  • Utah & Colorado Bearings
  • Cascade Bearing
  • Hub Supply
  • Blytheville Bearing
  • Premier Industrial Division of UAP, Inc.
  • Bush-Miller, Inc.
  • John M. Forster Company
  • Eastern Bearing Company
  • Lou's Bearing & Transmission, Ltd.
  • B.G.S. Bearings & Equipment Ltd.
  • CHV Hydraulics
  • Berry Bearing Co.

1988

• Motion Training opens first training center in 1988
• "Keeping Industry in Motion" adopted as official slogan

1985

• Michael S. Gaffney succeeded Mr. Spencer and Mr. Marks as President/CEO
• "Marks & Spencer had a unique way of bringing good people into the organization, training them well in different areas so they understood the total concept of the company, then placing them in the various divisions. And that's still how we operate".
  — Michael Gaffney, 1985

1983

• Motion acquires:
  • Power Systems - Fabritek, Inc
• The Motion issue of The Distributor, a Gates publication

1976

• GPC press release of Mi acquisition, 1976
• New 30,000 SF Headquarters completed in Irondale, AL
• Motion becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company (GPC)

1974

• "In general I would like to say of our growth that it is our desire that it be soundly planned growth and not hastily conceived pithy growth."
  — William Spencer, 1974
• Motion becomes a public corporation
• "Today's bearing distributor must know each customer's business almost as well as his own... It's a big job but it's part of our business and we love it."
  —Caldwell Marks, 1974

1973

• Motion acquires:
  • Walmsley Bearing
  • Buckeye Bearing Company
  • Hoosier Bearing Company
  • Volunteer Bearings & Transmission Company, Inc
  • Behring's Bearing
  • Bearings & Power Transmission Corp
  • Motion Control
  • Michigan Bearing
  • Bearing Specialty

1972

• 25 Locations reach $28 Million in sales
• Bearings & Transmission Supply (BATS) & Owen-Richards merge to form Motion

1954

• Owen-Richards Begins $150,000 Expansion

1946

• Owen-Richards Company Purchased by Caldwell Marks & William Spencer in Birmingham, AL.
• First-Year Sales Exceed $500,000