The announcement on Jan. 6 that Industrial Distribution magazine was folding after nearly 100 years is a blow to the entire distribution industry. Its last publication was the November/December 2009 issue. The publication had been for sale by Reed Business Information, a division of global publishing giant Reed Elsevier. When it couldn’t be sold as part of a package of publications in the past year, it was one of a few magazines shut down last week.
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It’s never easy to lose a valuable institution. I’ve spoken this week with distributors
whose fathers and grandfathers were quoted in the publication – from the 1920s on! Before the Internet,
it was the primary network for anyone in this field of industrial distribution, connecting manufacturers, manufacturer representatives,
distributors,
and service providers.
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Harold
Pioneer AVH-P4200DVD stereo Owner and Bragger!
I am glad that I went looking for this piece after speaking to you earlier today. Great tribute to some really great folks. I always enjoyed seeing Jack and Victoria at the various venues and I know that our paths will cross again. Thanks for putting this out, Tom.
their sponcered seminars on Integrated Supply. ID and Jack have championed industrial distribution second to none and the
industry will miss this great man and the work that he has accomplished. I believe he will always be a part of industrial
distribution in the future, as he should be!
Mort
The industry will miss the communications outlet. We also will loose the insights of a group of talented professionals.
It is a shame that the magazine got caught in the middle of a bad economy and changing waves of communications
technologies.
They will be missed.
We are in violent agreement. Tell Jack that I owe him a beer.