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Volume 38 - Number 13 | July 10, 2008

Pressures in the Steel Market
By Jenel Stelton-Holtmeier
Around the globe, spiking steel prices and tight supply are having an impact on both small and large manufacturers and distributors. Here is how some companies are addressing the shifts.

MDM Interview: Challenges, Opportunity in E-Commerce
Electrical manufacturer Square D's vice president of channel development has been active in promoting standards in the electrical distribution channel and in pushing standards through the company's own supply chain to develop greater efficiencies and visibility with its partners.

Can This Sales Dog Hunt?
By Colleen Stanley
This article examines why a can’t-fail sales hire sometimes does fail.

Commentary: MDM Welcomes Doug Savage, Thanks David Barth
By Thomas P. Gale
MDM's own board meeting reinforced importance of advisors to companies of all sizes.

Survey: Distributors, Suppliers in Certain Sectors Are Optimistic About Company Growth
Still, 80% of respondents are pessimistic about U.S. economic growth prospects.

Monthly Wholesale Trade: May 2008
May 2008 sales were up 1.6% from April and 13.7% from May 2007.

MDM News Digest 3813
Rexel Completes Hagemeyer Sale to Sonepar ... Irby Agrees to Buy Equity Utility ... Essco Buys Mountain Vista ... Lab Safety Supply Buys Highsmith ... GE to Spin Off Consumer, Industrial Units ... Dow Chemical to Buy Rohm & Haas ... Norandex Acquires Area Vinyl Siding Distributors ... Avnet Buys Source Electronics ... Lewis-Goetz Buys G&H Pumps ... Industrial Controls Merges With Climactic Control ... Valley National Gases Buys Beaver Valley Welding Supply ... Riverside Co. Buys SPX Air Filtration ... Bennett Forest Products, Riley Creek Lumber to Merge ... Graham Packaging Sold ... SKF Agrees to Buy PEER Bearing ... 3M Buys K&H ... Textron Greenlee Buys Utilux ... Thomas & Betts Sells Interest in Leviton ... WinWholesale Opens Stillwater Winlectric ... Applied Industrial New Catalog ... Airgas Raises Prices ... GDP Growth at 1% ... Canadian Wholesale Revenues Up ... Manufacturing Expands in June ... MSC Industrial Direct Sales Grow in 3Q ... Zep Sales Down Slightly

Power Transmission/Motion Control Sales Fall in May
Overall sales down 7.2%, according to latest PTDA data.

Distribution Financial Metrics and Trading Multiples
This table highlights key financial metrics and trading multiples for 30 publicly traded distributors in the industrial and building products industries up to June 30, 2008.

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