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The ruling prevents Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality from enforcing the Act against NAW Members until the court rules on the merits.
It’s one of a few visual changes you’ll notice around the MDM website, but our mission and purpose haven’t changed. Learn more here.
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Singer Industrial President Pete Haberbosch joins the MDM Podcast to explain how the rubber, fluid power and automation distribution platform’s “coordinated autonomy” model balances scale with local control. This episode explores the company's decentralized operating philosophy, M&A strategy, leadership development and what the company is seeing across its industrial end markets heading into 2026.
Our latest MarketPulse Report shares a wealth of data and analysis from the 4Q25 Baird-MDM Industrial Distribution Survey - conducted Jan. 5-12 - that covered respondents' revenue performance, pricing updates and business expectations for 1Q26 and the rest of the year, plus plenty of market-specific commentary.
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Tariffs are no longer episodic shocks — they are structural operating costs for transportation and distribution companies. With margins tight and sourcing uncertainty set to last, the question now is how leaders manage them profitably. In this sponsored MDM Amplify podcast, three Grant Thornton leaders cover how T&D organizations are managing tariff exposure, protecting cash flow and building flexibility under sustained pressure.
More than a handful of companies on MDM's Top Distributors Lists garnered the reputation-based honor from Fortune.
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This comprehensive MDM 1Q26 Forecast Report is a guide to the U.S. wholesale distribution economy, providing a historical, current and future snapshot of numerous key economic indicators in one convenient place along with our exclusive sector-specific forecasts for 19 different product categories.
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MDM's latest whitepaper — in partnership with OroCommerce — provides practical case study examples to show what technology debt looks like in practice and how distributors can unify and consolidate the tools they need to get their commerce foundation under control. Get the synopsis here.
Divested from Grainger in late 2023, metalworking and industrial supplies distributor E&R Industrial is entering a new chapter marked by independence, modernization and rapid expansion. CEO Joe Stephens stops by the MDM Podcast to tell us about what the company’s next couple years might look like, as well as his broader thoughts on relationship selling, what it means to be tech-enabled and the role of vending today.
Following a $1.2 equity commitment announced a week earlier, the financing suggests QXO expects to land its second acquisition soon.
Distributors often don’t lack strategy — they lack execution. Drawing from industry research and frontline realities, this piece outlines why good ideas stall and how leaders can close the execution gap in 2026 by prioritizing focus, process discipline and consistent action
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