Manufacturer's Representatives

Ed Bening & Associates, Inc. is a family-owned business in its third generation.

• Territory:
  • From our home base in Tacoma, Washington we serve Oregon, Washington, and the Panhandle of Idaho.  We have relationships with our distributor’s salesmen as far away as California, Montana, Utah, and Alaska.
• Business Philosophy:
  • Our job is to support our customers by presenting programs and new items that make sense for their customers and provide them with product knowledge, marketing, and support which ultimately leads to product sell-through.  Every distributor and retailer are different. We have the flexibility to quickly adapt to their changing needs and markets.
• Hardware Distributors:
  •  Dealer Shows
  •  Catalog Maintenance
  •  Fliers
  •  Sales staff support
    • To help our distributors, we participate in special events with their customers. 
• Chain Stores:
  • We work with our distributors to service the chain stores in our territory.  In some instances, large farm chains such as Coastal Farm (21 stores) and Wilco Farm (26 stores) buy through national co-ops.