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1950 Kelly Supply Shipping & Receiving Department
1952 - Farm Implement Dealer Ad
1955 - KSC expands products to include irrigation and industrial supplies.
1960 - First industrial supply catalog printed.
1963 - Kelly Supply receives Gates Rubber Company 25 Year Award
1963 (or so) - Innocent looking Gates Advertisement leads us to Lee Harvey Oswald!
1965 - Martin Kelly Jr. opens KSC Branch in Phoenix, AZ.
1967 - Untimely death of Martin Kelly Jr.. Phoenix Branch closes.
1968 - Norfolk, NE Branch
1975 - Jeff Kelly joins Kelly Supply
1975 - North Platte, NE Branch
1976 - Mike Kelly joins Kelly Supply
1978 - Lincoln, NE Branch
1979 - Expansion into the fertelizer industry with John Blue
1980 - Computerized KSC. First PC’s. Completed in house legacy Software. Purchased IBM Mainframe
1981 - Sterling, CO Branch
1983 - Howard Kelly retires
1984 - First Kelly Supply data network, giving all brances order entry, on hand inventory and customer pricing.
1984 - Denver, CO Branch
1986 - Fax machines installed in all branches.
1986 - Ralph Kelly retires
1988 - Fort Collins, CO Branch
1990 - Purchased four plumbing / heating / electrical branches in Iowa (Marion, Oskaloosa, Pella, Fairfield)
1995 - Columbus, NE Branch
1995 - Started an Internet Company
1996 - Omaha, NE Branch
1997 - Changed from home grown software to P21
2001 - Hastings, NE Branch
2003 - Made commitment to expand technology, internet and legacy software company. (Venture)
2003 - Kelly Supply Celebrates 100 Years - Supply House Times - September 8, 2003
