Reliance Steel & Aluminum Sales up 10.8% in 2Q
Profit fell 25.6 percent to $81 million.
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McKesson Sales Up 5% in 1Q
Profit increased 7.6 percent to $424 million.
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Service Diversification Drives Arrow Electronics
Arrow finds growth opportunities in services that didn't exist for the distributor a few years ago
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NAW-McGladrey Report: Distributors Optimistic About Economy, but Expect Headwinds
Distributors expect growth to be tempered somewhat by government actions and rising employee costs.
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MSC, Fastenal & Others Bullish on Manufacturing’s Future
But executives report some softness in the latest quarter for manufacturing customers.
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Precision Castparts Sales Jump 20% in First Quarter
Profit increased 23 percent for the quarter ended June 30, 2013.
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Kennametal Organic Sales Down 8% in FY2013
Industrial and infrastructure sales both declined in the fourth quarter.
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Nash Finch Company Sales Up 9% in Second Quarter
Food distribution sales increased 10.3 percent, primarily from acquisitions.
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Timken Sales Fall 16% in 2Q
The decline was due in part to decreased demand in industrial distribution.
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ABB Sales Grow in Second Quarter
Most product business saw sequential order growth.
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Wolseley Taps New Executive for Wolseley Canada
Frank Roach, current executive for Canada and the U.S., will continue to focus on opportunities for growth in the U.S.
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USG Sales Climb 15% in 2Q
L&W, USG's distribution business, had its first operating profit since 2008.
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Saint-Gobain Sales Down 2.9% in First Half of 2013
Underlying trends are stabilizing for the European building materials supplier, but sluggish European economies continue to dampen results.
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Airgas Organic Sales Flat in Fiscal 1Q
Inorganic sales were up 2 percent from the prior year.
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3M Organic Sales Up 2.3% in Second Quarter
Sales for 3M's industrial business grew 6.6 percent in the quarter.
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Lawson Products Sales Up 1.6% in Second Quarter
Profit was $400,000 for the quarter, compared to a year-ago loss of $61.2 million.
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WESCO Organic Sales Fall 1.2% in Second Quarter
Overall sales were up 13.2 percent for the electrical distributor, thanks to acquisitions.
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Monthly Wholesale Trade Data: May 2013
Sales and inventories data for wholesaler-distributors in May 2013.
This article includes:
- Wholesale trade revenues for durable and nondurable goods in May 2013
- Monthly inventories/sales ratio for the industry
- Sales & inventory trends for durable and nondurable goods
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Why Online Marketing is Essential for Distributors
It would be natural for a business leader to assume that their customers operate in the same way that they do. But according to Bob DeStefano, president of SVM E-Marketing Solutions, business today has reached a tipping point where “generation net” workers outnumber baby boomers, and the way they do business is different from past generations.
In this article, learn:
- How Google has changed the face of marketing
- Why marketing should be viewed as an investment
- The role of your website in marketing today
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