By
Lindsay
Young
Distributors across many sectors face a decision many never faced before: whether to implement layoffs. This article offers
insight from two distributors on deciding who, when and how, as well as expert opinion on best practices in this difficult
time.
By
Lindsay
Young
How layoffs are handled makes a huge difference in the productivity and satisfaction of remaining staff.
Large and small wholesaler-distributors help laid-off employees prepare for a job search. Skip DeVilling talks about trends
in outplacement services.
By
Thomas P.
Gale
Long-held customer accounts are revisiting supply relationships; new opportunities are emerging.
By
Jenel
Stelton-Holtmeier
There are positives to be found in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Adam Fein presented his review
of the opportunities and impacts of the bill for distributors in a recent MDM Webcast.
Distributor sales were $319.7 billion, up 0.6 percent from January and down 14.3 percent from February 2008; inventories fall.
Quarterly financial metrics and trading multiples for 30 publicly traded wholesale distributors.
Matheson Tri-Gas to Buy Valley National Gases ... Valley Launches Safety Products Catalog ... Barnes Expands Fasteners Line
... HD Supply: New Catalog ... WinWholesale Opens Winwater Works Co. ... MSC Industrial Sales Fall in 2Q ... H.B. Fuller Agrees
to
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