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The employee feedback-based 2025 Top Workplaces list is out, which includes a ranked subset for distribution companies, segmented by size. Five are on MDM’s 2025 Top Distributors Lists.
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The deal will combine the Nos. 2 and 3 companies on MDM’s 2025 Top Distributors List for JanSan, Packaging & Disposables.
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This issue's content contains eight articles that include the last two parts of our Analytics Imperative series; benchmarking research on distributors' AI adoption; research on distributors' succession planning; our 2-part "Retooling Distribution for Digital series; a Market Profile on electrical component modules; and more.
Margins were hampered by tariff-driven LIFO headwinds, though daily sales continued to gain momentum, especially in Endless Assortment. Get a full breakdown of Grainger's 2Q stats.
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As two of America's freight railroads move to merge, industrial supply chains could see both streamlined coast-to-coast shipping and reduced competitive alternatives in an increasingly consolidated market. Here are the key details and context distributors should be aware of.
It will create two independent public companies by the end of 2026, with ADI going forward as a $4.5 billion distributor of low-voltage products and solutions.
See our breakdown of M&A activity by product category, the latest EBITDA trading multiples for 29 top industrial distributors and our detailed rundown of all deals we tracked during April-June, which remained subdued but improved throughout the quarter.
Sponsored by Grant Thornton, this podcast episode features a trio of specialists to discuss the moves that distributors and transportation providers are making to go from reacting to the new normal of constant disruption, to getting ahead of the curve to be ready for whatever comes next. Tariffs are only one piece of that puzzle.
We chat with Rexel's North American CEO on what the company has been up to lately and what's on the horizon. This includes recent acquisitions; Rexel's U.S.-Canada financial outperformance vs. the group's Europe counterpart; investments in talent development and digital transformation; thoughts on tariff impacts; and more.
Our second quarter MarketPulse shares a wealth of data from the 2Q25 Baird-MDM Industrial Distribution Survey - conducted in early July - that covered respondents' revenue performance, pricing updates and expectations for the current quarter and rest-of-year, plus plenty of commentary.
This year of tariffs has made it nearly impossible for distributors to rely on traditional planning cycles or manual cost tracking. This piece illustrates what a proactive distributor looks instead of one that just watches headlines.
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Fastenal posted its strongest monthly sales growth since early 2023, with June daily sales up year-over-year amid solid gains across key markets. See our full breakdown of the company’s June and 2Q results.
Now live, this issue’s content is packed a dozen articles that include the first three parts of our Analytics Imperative series; our three-part deep dive on LINC Systems; research on distributors decoupling from China; takeaways from two key SHIFT conference sessions; a Market Profile on Fluid Power; and more.
The fifth and final section of this series focuses on implementation excellence — covering how to present prescriptive output for maximum adoption; align messaging across all channels; and create a culture of analytics-driven decision-making. It wraps with a conclusion that ties the whole series together.
Alongside MDM and NAW's own research into how tariffs are impacting distributors, a pair of new reports share fresh statistics on wholesale trade's outsized brunt of the economic burden from them.
