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Willard Wall opens a sundries store in Porterville, California, which will later transition into Walco International. 

Willard Wall opens Wall’s Livestock Supply and expands into Visalia, California, and Phoenix, Arizona. 

Bob Hummel founds a company delivering to veterinarians in California and later joins Jim Loughlin in purchasing RX Company. They incorporate the new combined company under the name Great Plains Chemical Company Inc. 

Dan and Casey Kane established Kane Veterinary Supplies.

Willard Wall brought nine companies together to form Walco International.

Bob Hummel moved Great Plains Chemical Company to Greeley, Colorado.

Charles Nakamura, Eric Johnson and Carl Izumi founded distributor Hawaii Mega-Cor.

Great Plains Chemical Company begins marketing private label products under the name Lextron, Inc. 

Walco International employs 700 people and earns more than $330 million in sales.

Turnkey Computer Systems, LLC (Amarillo, Texas) became a wholly owned subsidiary of Animal Health International.

In October, Kane Veterinary Supplies Ltd. joins Animal Health International.

Lextron, Inc. purchased its respected long-time rival Walco International and began operating under the name Animal Health International.