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Recommended Reading: Market Leaders Embrace Change

HD Supply, Grainger, Wolseley, MSC Industrial adapt to new market realities.
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Some of the industry's largest distributors – including Grainger, HD Supply, Wolseley and MSC Industrial – are shaking things up in response to changing market demands. These MDM Market Leaders and others aren't afraid to restructure their pricing, retool their business divisions, rebrand their company or refocus their value proposition.

"In almost every vertical market, you can find people who are growing and are successful because they have either adapted to the current market conditions or they have made changes in their business model … ," James Teat, president, Axcess Technology Source LLC, Carrollton, TX, tells MDM for our annual Market Leaders issue (out June 25).

Here are what these four leading distributor have done in recent months. Are you also adapting your company?

Learn more about what these and other companies are doing when we publish the list of the Top 40 industrial distributors, as well as the top distributors in 14 other sectors, on June 25. (View the 2016 lists.)

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