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Panelists from Salsify, Dremel, Bloomreach and Waters Corp. debate whether B2B sales interactions will be more human or machine-based going forward. It depends on who owns the sales experience, if machines can manage complexity and which route produces the smoothest sales cycle.
Buying group also reports purchases by member companies from AD supplier partners increased by 16% in the first quarter.
Construction spending for the third month of 2021 was up 0.2% from the previous month of February.
Industrial distribution giant Grainger says its High-Touch Solutions (N.A.) segment sales were up 1.8%, and 3.4% on a daily basis versus the prior-year quarter.
The association also finds that the average annual sales growth for the 12 months through March for HARDI distributors is 8.7%.
Net product sales for Amazon totaled $57.5 billion in the quarter, up 27.2% from $41.8 billion in the year-ago period.
The growth marks a steady improvement from the fourth quarter of 2021, when real GDP increased 4.3%.
Kimball Midwest is among the 59 companies honored by the Chief Learning Officer’s 11th Learning Awards program.
The Chicago-based MRO distributor Lawson Products also saw its average daily net sales grow 15.6% as the company began 2021 with a bang.
After sales increase in the third quarter, Applied Industrial Technologies’ CEO is predicting an even better fourth quarter.
