Month-over-month orders declined for a second straight month, but to a much smaller degree than April, while year-over-year totals remain robust. Get the key figures and context here.
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Wolter acquires Delta Materials Handling with locations in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas.
OMNIA Partners said 10 new suppliers have joined its OPUS eCommerce procurement platform, expanding its online catalog to more than 8 million SKUs across nearly 200 product categories.
The Germany-based distributor cited a continued challenging economic environment as weighing on markets, though its sales and profits accelerated in 2026' first half.
The number of units shipped decreased for a second straight month after rising in March and February.
The pending deal would add supplyFORCE’s national accounts-focused MRO network to AD, continuing the buying group’s expansion following its IMARK Electrical and Commonwealth Group mergers, while coming months after AD sold its Member Supply unit to ORS Nasco.
Southern Glazer’s said it is expanding its use of inside sales and digital commerce for some independent customers, resulting in a projected 1% reduction of its U.S. workforce.
The PE firm invested in W.E.C.S. Electric Supply and Electrical Cable Specialists, merging the two businesses to form a specialty distribution and cable-integration platform serving critical power and infrastructure markets.
Petroleum products continued to lift nondurable goods sales, while durables saw widespread acceleration as inventory-to-sales ratios continue to slide, indicating demand is outpacing stockpiles. Here, get a full breakdown of product vertical-specific figures for monthly and year-over-year sales and inventories from the latest government data.
The deal adds a Louisiana-based supplier of electrical and data products for commercial, industrial and data communications projects to Lonestar’s growing industrial business.
The IMF’s July World Economic Outlook update projects 3.0% global growth in 2026, down 0.1 percentage point from April, as war-driven energy pressure and stalled disinflation offset technology investment gains.
The deal adds a Kentucky-based supplier of custom engineered fasteners, metal stampings and electronic hardware to Endries’ growing fasteners platform.
The San Francisco-based startup said its seed funding will support hiring, product development and continued expansion of its machine learning models for distributor purchasing decisions.
The deals add operations in Kentucky, Missouri and California, expanding Road Warrior's national heavy-duty truck and trailer aftermarket parts distribution and repair network.
Texas-based Accurate gains a Norwood, MA-based distributor and service provider of water meters and waterworks products for municipal utilities.
Less than a month after a massive fire destroyed one of Medline’s largest distribution centers, the medical-surgical products distributor has secured two new Northern California facilities totaling more than 1.6 million square feet.
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The pending sale would make Continental a pure-play tire manufacturer while putting ContiTech’s industrial rubber, hose, conveyor and fluid management portfolio under private equity ownership.
It followed a 4.5% April increase, marking a downtrodden start to the first meaningful month of cooling season.
The reported offer comes about five months after GPC announced plans to separate its NAPA automotive parts business and Motion industrial parts business into two standalone public companies.
