Medline Industries announced the winners of its 2012 Distribution Supplier Recognition Awards at its National Sales Meeting in Chicago in April. MidMark Corporation received the award for Platinum Vendor of the Year. Twelve companies — 3M Healthcare, CR Bard – Davol Division, Centurion Medical Products, ConMed, Dale Medical, Edwards Lifesciences, J.T. Posey, Kimberly Clark, Covidien Respiratory & Monitoring Solutions, Masimo Corporation, Precision Dynamics, and Smith & Nephew — received the Operational Excellence Award. The Sales Merit Award went to CareFusion and Georgia Pacific, while the Rising Star award went to Alpha Pro Tech Inc.