The latest downloadable offering from MDM Premium is now available in the form of our August Premium Monthly Intelligence Brief.

If you’re an MDM Premium subscriber, you may have wondered what happened to our Premium Monthly PDF report that showed all of our articles from each month in one PDF. Those PDFs were huge, often 30-40 pages depending on the number of articles and their length, and it was dense to page through to find the specific article you might be looking for.

So, earlier this summer we worked through revising this asset into what a downloadable monthly Premium content report could and should look like, and out of that, we’ve created MDM’s Premium Monthly Intelligence Brief.

We know our Premium readers don’t have time to read every word of Premium content MDM publishes each month, so we’ve evolved our former Premium Monthly PDF into this briefing — a concise, executive-friendly report designed to provide a quick glance at the month’s content and the key takeaways from each article. Whereas Premium Monthly was regularly 30+ pages in its previous format, our August report packages the key takeaways in eight. It is intended to give distribution executives a timely download of the best of MDM’s Premium reporting, helping you quickly absorb the ideas, trends and strategic signals that mattered most during the month. Meanwhile, readers are still able to quickly view each article in-full with just one click from their hyperlinks.

Premium members can download their August Intelligence Brief here

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Our 10 August Premium articles covered the following:

• Part 2 of Nelson Valderrama’s analysis of NAW survey data about the gap between supplier cost increases and distributor’s pricing
• Why model routing is the key advantage against hidden costs of AI agents
• What buyers want in a more selective distribution M&A market
• Our monthly MDM Forecast that provides an updated annual revenue outlook for 20 different product sectors
• Our research about distributors’ current factors driving both optimism and concern over the next 12 months
• Why construction estimates fail and how distributors can make them more reliable
• An analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest wholesale trade sales and inventory data (through June 2026)
• Our research into what distributors and manufacturers want each other to improve upon the most
• What the takeaway should be from Amazon returning a considerable portion of its tariff refund to consumers, and if distributors should follow suit
• August’s M&A Roundup

With MDM being a part of NAW, NAW members have complimentary access to MDM Premium. If you’re an NAW member, you should activate your Premium subscription here if you haven’t already.

Other recent MDM & NAW Research Reports:

• • July Premium Monthly Intelligence Brief
  • June Premium Monthly Intelligence Brief
  • 2Q26 NAW M&A Report — Premium access, Store link
  • 3Q26 NAW Forecast Report — Premium access, Store link
  • MDM Case Study: Stellar Industrial Supply — Premium access, Store link
  • MDM Case Study: Singer Industrial — Premium access, Store link
  • MDM 1Q26 MarketPulse Report – Premium access, Store link
  • MDM Case Study: Ludwig Meister — Premium access, Store link
  • MDM Case Study: LINC Systems – Premium access, Store link
  • MDM Case Study: MSC Industrial Supply – Premium access, Store link
  • MRO Market Trends Report – Store link
  • Family-Owned Business Report – Premium access, Store link