Market conditions weren’t favorable for Applied Industrial Technologies Inc. in the fiscal fourth quarter, but the distributor navigated the COVID-plagued business landscape as well as possible thanks to cost-reduction measures it will extend into 2021.
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Like most companies, Applied was impacted in the period by the COVID-19 crisis and saw fourth-quarter sales fall 17.9% over the same period in 2019.
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