MDM is proud to unveil our inaugural set of “Industry Titans” — a prestigious group of leading distribution companies recognized for sustained excellence, innovation and industry leadership. This designation is bestowed upon companies that have ranked in the top three of at least one category on MDM’s annual Top Distributors Lists for the past five consecutive years.

This year’s honorees represent the gold standard in wholesale distribution — not just in scale, but in the consistent ability to lead, adapt and deliver value through changing markets and customer demands.

“Earning the title of Industry Titan is no small feat. These companies consistently set the bar for excellence across every metric we track,” MDM Executive Editor Mike Hockett said. “We’re excited to recognize their achievements at SHIFT and share the story behind what it takes to lead at the highest level. It’s one thing to be a market-leading distributor. It’s another to maintain that status year-after-year amid the new normal of constant disruption for this industry.”

MDM’s 2025 Industry Titans include:

• ABC Supply – Building Materials/Construction
• Applied Industrial Technologies – Power Transmission/Bearings and Fluid Power
• Arrow Electronics – Electronics
• Avnet – Electronics
• BDI – Power Transmission/Bearings
• Builders FirstSource – Building Materials/Construction
• Core & Main – Industrial PVF
• Ferguson – HVACR and Plumbing
• Grainger – Industrial Supplies and MRO
• Motion – MRO, Power Transmission/Bearings and Fluid Power
• MRC Global – Industrial PVF
• Sonepar – Electrical/Data/Security
• SunSource – Hose/Hose Accessories
• Watsco – HVACR
• Wesco – Electrical/Data/Security
• Winsupply – Plumbing

Industry Titans to be Recognized at SHIFT

The 2025 Industry Titans will be formally recognized on stage at the MDM SHIFT Conference in Denver on May 13-15, and some of them will be in attendance at the event. We invite you to join us for SHIFT’s two-and-a-half days of networking, roundtable discussions and programming among industry peers.

In addition to on-stage recognition, each Industry Titan will be highlighted in MDM’s 2025 Top Distributors Report, releasing in June. It will mark MDM’s 16th annual edition of the Top Distributors feature, which ranks North American-based distributors of industrial, commercial and building supplies by their revenue within 20 different product verticals.