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The recent flurry of high-profile, high-dollar M&A deals involving building material distributors like HD Supply, US LBM and Foundation Building Supply has sparked plenty of shakeup but also shined a light on this sector.
How owning customers’ attention and their data pays off big for the massive e-commerce site.
Like most organizations during the last eight months of the coronavirus crisis, the Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA) was forced to move its in-person events to virtual.
Tish Drake joins MDM as Senior Vice President, Publishing and Bob Jordan as Vice President, Business Development.
There is a strong business case for more gender diversity in workplace leadership.
How did the public distributors (and manufacturers relevant to this space) perform in the calendar third quarter? Our recap provides highlights of their revenue and earnings results.
What’s on tap for 2021? In this exclusive video, Brian Lewandowski of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder provides distributors a macro view of wholesale distribution and the broader U.S. economy.
In this exclusive video, Baird analysts Dave Manthey and Quinn Fredrickson go behind the numbers of the latest MDM-Baird Distribution Survey. In this 16-minute video, they speak with MDM CEO Tom Gale about the industry’s performance and projections.
M&A activity kicked off the fourth quarter in style, as October registered the highest volume of distribution deals since before the pandemic. Here is our recap of the industry’s latest moves.
Strategic activity from leading distributors like Ferguson, Grainger and Fastenal led to the most-read blogs of October 2020.
Applied Industrial Technologies hopes to grow revenue 40% to $4.5 billion in the coming years, and M&A will not surprisingly play a huge role in that ambitious pursuit. Here’s what company leaders said about their acquisition strategy moving forward.
Five questions to ask yourself that will help measure the effectiveness of your e-commerce capabilities.
After Grainger posted a moderate improvement in the third quarter, company executives dished on the distributor’s approach to acquiring new customers and how it is bolstering the company. Here's what they shared.
A strong individual online presence can mean good things for your distribution company.
After being acquired by a private equity firm and combined with Construction Supply Group, White Cap is now a $4 billion building materials distribution juggernaut. Where will the company rank among MDM's Market Leaders?
U.S. manufacturers are digitizing at twice the rate of other businesses, Alibaba.com survey finds.
How the online juggernaut uses AI-backed search expertise to improve its e-commerce effectiveness and overcome competitors.
There are popular rules that can almost always be broken, while others deserve some skepticism or flexibility, says consultant Robert Sabath.
