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The Pacific Northwest Hardware and Implement Association,
doing business as the Pacific Northwest Association (PNWA), was
founded in 1899. Pacific Northwest Hardware and Implement Association
was incorporated in the state of Washington January 17, 1908
and later in the state of Oregon on June 13, 1988. PNWA's object
is to serve as a bureau of information for its members and to
secure and disseminate to and among its members any and all legal
and proper information which may be of interest or value as it
relates to their industry; to obtain and offer to its members
health and other insurance coverage; and to do anything and everything
necessary or proper to have or enjoy each and all said powers,
purposes, matters and things set forth herein and anything and
everything necessary to fully and completely carry out said purposes
and powers above specified in and to their fullest and broadest
sense and meaning.
Eligibility
Any person, firm or corporation regularly engaged in the retail
hardware, home center, lumber, farm equipment, outdoor power
and industrial equipment industry shall be eligible to regular
membership upon payment of the required dues and upon payment
of said required dues shall be a regular member of the corporation.
Subject to the approval of the Executive Committee.
Subject to the a majority of the Executive Committee, any
manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor and supplier selling goods
or services to the regular membership shall be eligible for Associate
membership upon payment of the required dues and upon payment
of such dues shall be an Associate member of the corporation.
Associate members shall have all rights and privileges of regular
members except the right to vote or to hold office.
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