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Eric Smith
Former MDM Senior Editor Eric Smith was an award-winning business journalist whose coverage focuses included economic news and insights, industry trends, M&A, and analysis of small businesses and public companies across the wholesale distribution marketplace.
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Rexel’s $456 million acquisition of Mayer Electric was just one of the notable transactions to reshape distribution last month.
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At MDM’s upcoming Sales GPS Conference in Chicago, Mike Emerson and Mike Marks of Indian River Consulting Group will teach a Masterclass on aligning sales comp as part of overall sales transformation.
Jennings, the founding director of the Master of Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University, died Oct. 5 at the age of 84.
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The Atlanta-based company will continue to do business as HESCO Supply following the acquisition.
BradyIFS, as the recently merged companies are called, has added Fishman Supply Co. and Armstrong Paper Group, both of California, to its portfolio.
The building materials distributor has made another acquisition with the addition of the Texas-based supplier to its rapidly expanding portfolio.
The relatively new company — a platform of Heritage Landscape — has added six locations with the addition of the Clio, Michigan-based distributor.
Which companies made moves? Our recap chronicles last month’s increased deal volume as consolidation ramps up across distribution verticals.
The U.S. Census Bureau has released advance indicators showing that the international trade deficit and wholesale inventories increased in August.
The increase in real GDP reflected increases in personal consumption expenditures, nonresidential fixed investment, exports, and state and local government spending.
The increase, up 15 of the last 16 months, followed a 0.5% July increase.
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