Avnet Buys Large Office in Tempe for New Corporate HQ
Electronic components distributor Avnet will move its Phoenix HQ to a 150,000-square-foot building in Tempe, AZ.Â
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June 2025
Pye-Barker Fire & Safety Acquires Century-Old Distributor in VA
Third-generation family business Fire Protection Equipment Co. joins Pye-Barker to enhance the company’s full fire code compliance services.
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Core & Main Holds Outlook After 1Q Sales Jump 10%
Core & Main’s sales in PVF, storm drainage and meter products increased primarily due to higher volumes and acquisitions.
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World Bank Cuts 2025 Global, U.S. Economic Growth Outlook
Citing trade wars, the lender expects 2025 U.S. growth to be half of what it predicted a year earlier.
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John Deere Fights Rumor of U.S. Pause with $20B Factory Investment Pledge
The agricultural equipment gave a bold response to a report of a company U.S. production shutdown.
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Food Distributor UNFI Partially Crippled by Cyberattack
A cyberattack on United Natural Foods Inc., a primary distributor to Whole Foods, continues to cause disruptions to business operations.
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Distribution’s Analytics Imperative: Becoming the Disruptor in a Disruptive Market
This piece kicks off a five-part series providing guidance on turning uncertainty into decisive action, with data analytics as the underlying compass. This section introduces the concept of modeling “doing nothing vs. doing something” and helps assess whether the investment in purpose-built analytics is justified by their scale and complexity.
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MDM’s 2025 Top Distributors Lists Are Now Live & Available to Download
Our highly anticipated annual feature is now available to view and download. Explore our 20 different lists to see distribution’s biggest movers and shakers.
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April U.S. Metalworking Machinery Orders Maintain Strong YoY Trend
While monthly orders expectedly retracted, the decline was less than half of a typical April, while year-over-year and year-to-date figures outpace 2024.
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U.S. Wholesale Sales Continue Deceleration with Modest April Gain
The trend reflects the impacts of tariff-driven uncertainty that followed frontloading of goods to start the year.
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BradyPlus Acquires Biloxi Paper on MS Gulf Coast
It’s the JanSan, foodservice and industrial packaging supplies distributor’s first bolt-on in 2025 after three deals in 2024.
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Fasteners Maker MNP Acquired by Italy’s Fontana Gruppo
Based in Michigan, MNP is a manufacturer of fasteners and cold-formed components, including screws, rivets, washers and more.
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Here’s Where Distributors Rank on the 2025 Fortune 500
Plenty of companies from MDM’s Top Distributors Lists decorated a revenue-based spot on the newly released 2025 Fortune 500. See our convenient breakdown of them here, along with facts and figures about this year’s feature.
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Aeromed Acquires Fellow Distribution Group AIReps in Anaheim
Based in California, AIReps is a group of distributors of aerospace products, such as connectors, fasteners, seals, HI-LOKs, tubing and more.
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MSI Automate Buys Vertical Storage Provider SencorpWhite in Auction
SencorpWhite operates via brands White Systems, CeraTek, Accu-Seal and Ascent Warehouse Logistics.
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Kodiak BP Appoints Leaders for 2 Subsidiaries
Kodiak Building Partners appointed new presidents at Zarsky Lumber and Sun Mountain Doors to support growth and operations.
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SESCO to Acquire Fellow Lighting Manufacturers Rep Agency NEXGEN
Texas-based NEXGEN is a manufacturer’s lighting agency, serving the northern, eastern and western regions of Texas.
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PTDA Adds MANTIS Conveyor & Allen Bearings to Membership
PTDA welcomed back Canada-based Allen Bearings & Technologies, a distributor of bearings and power transmission solutions and added MANTIS to its manufacturers.
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How to Optimize Your Sales Force Model for the Future
Distributors spend significant resources on their sales force, where optimization has been shifted by tech and customer expectations and traditional approaches are changing with the rise of inside sales, hybrid models, and hunter/farmer strategies. Here, learn about why these new approaches are taking sales teams by storm across the distribution industry and why your team should implement them today.
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HARDI Distributors Post 6.8% April Revenue Growth
HARDI distributors saw a solid monthly sales increase in April, with growth trending upward despite soft housing data and high interest rates.
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