CLEVELAND, April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Parker Hannifin (NYSE: PH), the
global leader in motion and control technology, today was presented the
Good Scout Award by the Greater Cleveland Council of the Boy Scouts of
America.
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The Good Scout award highlights the strong commitment made to the
Greater Cleveland community by a local corporation or individual. Parker's
Lee Banks, Senior Vice President and Operating Officer and John Dedinsky,
Vice President- Global Supply Chain & Procurement accepted the award on
behalf of the company. Banks noted that Parker was honored to be recognized
in association with the Greater Cleveland Council's effort to instill
Scouting's values. Youthful members of the more than 20,000 scouting
families served by the Council include hundreds of scouts who are Parker
employee family members in Cuyahoga and northern Summit counties. More than
sixty Parker executives and employees attended the luncheon.
The annual luncheon event, held this year before some 600 members of
Cleveland's business community in the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance
Cleveland Hotel, raises funds for the Greater Cleveland Council of the Boy
Scouts of America. Parker annually supports charitable, civic and
educational organizations in Cleveland and throughout the local communities
in 43 countries where it has operations.
With annual sales exceeding $10 billion, Parker Hannifin is the world's
leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and
systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of
commercial, mobile, industrial and aerospace markets. The company employs
more than 57,000 people in 43 countries around the world. Parker has
increased its annual dividends paid to shareholders for 51 consecutive
years, among the top five longest-running dividend-increase records in the
S&P 500 index. For more information, visit the company's web site at
http://www.parker.com , or its investor information site at
http://www.phstock.com .
SOURCE Parker Hannifin
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CONTACT:
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