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Senior Editor Eric Smith is an award-winning business journalist whose coverage focus includes economic news and insights, industry trends, M&A, and analysis of small businesses and public companies across the wholesale distribution marketplace. Reach him at eric@mdm.com or 720-207-0335.
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As distributors eye the end of the pandemic, they can prepare their companies for the new normal by following these steps from Mark Dancer.
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ACS pulls trigger on ninth acquisition under current sponsorship with the addition of Foley Lumber and Milaca Building Center.
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The seasonally adjusted Fastener Distributor Index (FDI) for March was 66, down only slightly from 66.1 in February.
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March sales increased 12.4% over the same month a year ago as the company saw fastener sales continue to rebound, growing 14% in the month.
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Distributor appoints Eric Leatherman, David Benton and Steve Lyon to new roles.
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New orders placed in February also marked a 17.8% increase from the previous month of January, according to the most recent U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report.
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Protective Industrial Products Inc. names Laura Proctor as director of marketing for industrial safety.
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Watsco announced in March that it was spending $291 million to add Temperature Equipment Corp. to its portfolio.
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These extraordinary women are taking the industry to new heights through strong leadership and mindful investments in the future.
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Patel used her extensive B2C e-commerce experience when building a digital sales channel for the landscape equipment distributor.
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Millard might have handed the reins of the electrical distributor's top executive post to a successor, but her legacy at the company and in wholesale distribution is intact.
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As the president/CEO and owner of The Part Works Inc., a company her parents started, Parris now gets to combine her own experience and skills with the foundation they built.
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Vrancic might officially be the director or marketing, but she has proven to be so much for the industrial distributor since joining the company in 2002.
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Petra Schindler-Carter has been with Amazon Business since it rebranded from AmazonSupply in 2015, and she is a major reason for the division's success.
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Though a relative newbie to the distribution industry, Finlayson has brought a solid business acumen to the company she bought from her parents a few years ago and is now seeing the industrial supplier thrive.
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Mazzarella's rise to the top at Grayber is legendary, and she is out to help distributors learn from her experience and expertise.
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As the chief human resources office for Crescent Electric Supply Co., Swambar is leading the charge in the company's "war for talent," but she brings much more to the electrical distribution business.
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ADI Global Distribution vice president of global operations helped carry the company through the complexity of COVID-19 with "creative and unique" solutions.
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Wholesale trade shows improvement from same month in 2020 but was down from the previous month of January, according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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