Bunzl Distribution President and CEO Patrick L. Larmon is the newly elected Secretary of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW). He is one of five officers elected to serve on the 2010 NAW Board of Directors along with NAW President Dirk Van Dongen and three members of the NAW Association Executives Council (AEC).

Commenting on his new responsibilities, Larmon said, “Our company receives many benefits from the programs, industry expertise and advocacy provided by NAW, and it is my honor to serve on the NAW Board of Directors. I am excited to join the leadership team, and I look forward to helping advance the association’s important work.”

NAW comprises individual wholesale distribution firms and a federation of national, regional, state and local associations and their members, which collectively total more than 40,000 companies. NAW represents the $4.5 trillion merchant wholesale distribution industry, which moves to market virtually every kind of product in the U.S. economy and employs 5 million people.