On June 8, 2006, MSC completed the acquisition of J & L America, Inc., DBA, J & L Industrial Supply (J & L), a subsidiary of Kennametal for $349.5 million. In 2013 the company opened its co-headquarters office in Davidson, North Carolina which is located in the Charlotte, North Carolina metropolitan area.
Michael Jackson's video for Thriller was released nearly 30 years ago, on December 2nd, 1983.
In the age of Thriller, black music made a resounding comeback on the pop charts. If 1982 was the genre's low point in terms of pop success, by 1985 more than one third of all the hits on the Billboard Hot 100 were of urban radio origin.