MSC Posts Choppy 1Q as Manufacturing Sales Turn Negative
The figures signalled a bumpy period for fellow metalworking and MRO supplies distributors.
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Data: Planned Industrial Projects End 2023 on Strong Note
The distribution and supply chain sector saw healthy month-to-month growth in project counts, with Texas leading the way geographically.
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MDM’s Top News Stories of 2023
Take a look back on the year and see what news stories drew the most attention from our audience in 2023.
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December M&A Roundup: QXO, Venturi Supply Make Splash Market Entrance
Despite a silent final week, pre-Christmas activity made December another very active month to close out 2023.
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MDM’s Top Podcasts of 2023
We continue our year-end retrospective series by showcasing our most popular feature podcast episodes of 2023, which shared plenty of valuable industry perspective.
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MDM’s Top Premium Content of 2023
We continue our year-end retrospective series with a look back at MDM's top Premium content of 2023, which encapsulates our most-read top value content.
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MDM’s Top QuickTakes of 2023
Our 2023 retrospective looks at which of our short-form podcast conversations garnered the most listens and blog views.
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3 Tips to Elevate Strategic Planning Performance in 2024
John Gunderson puts a bow on 2024 business planning with advice on how to ensure your strategy is more sound than your assumptions.
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MDM’s Top Free Blogs of 2023: Distributor Rankings, Fastenal ‘Pivot’ Series Lead the Way
A three-part Fastenal case study was a smash hit, as was the launch of MDM’s 2023 Top Distributors Lists feature, which wasn’t the only list to garner high interest.
MDM Podcast: Jennifer Murphy Says Distribution’s Diversity is a Beautiful Thing
NetPlus Alliance's Jennifer Murphy joins to discuss how the role of buying groups has evolved in recent years and why distribution's fragmentation continues to serve the channel well, among other topics.
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November Premium Monthly: Economic Outlook & the AI Hype Cycle Lead Content
Get caught up what MDM's November Premium content entailed.
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QuickTake: Report Card on Distribution Business Models
Time for a check-up on the state of the industry as 2023 ends. Mike Marks and Tom Gale review the shifts – seismic and otherwise – that have shaped the competitive landscape across the dimensions of sales channels, digital, data analytics and culture.
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See Which Distributors Made Newsweek’s ‘Most Responsible Companies’ List
The rankings feature awards companies for their ESG efforts and supporting their local communities.
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MDM Podcast: BradyIFS + Envoy Solutions See Many Ways to Win
Ken Sweder, CEO of the now-combined JanSan, foodservice and packaging supplies distributor, stops by to discuss the strategy behind the merger, the path ahead and the outlook for the company's product markets.
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How to Leverage Intelligent Automation for Streamlined Order Processing
With distributors unsure about the business case for AI, Tim Yates explains how these companies can leverage its automation capabilities so that the technology pays for itself, and then some.
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AI, Meet My Best Friend, Data
AI is already fueling next-gen sales models, but data analytics are the foundation to better engage, sell and service customer needs. Here’s the growth roadmap MDM is exploring at our Data Analytics Summit.
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Fastenal’s Big Pivot, Pt. 3: Investments, Line Expansions & Digital Growth
In the last of his three-part detective series, John Gunderson examines the role that Fastenal's investments, product line expansions and digital growth have played to drive a decade-long performance increase.
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November M&A Roundup: Strong Pace Halts at Thanksgiving
We reported on 28 industrial, commercial and building supply M&A deals during the month by distributors and manufacturers, with all but two of them before Nov. 23.
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MDM Podcast: How Kodiak Grows through Local Empowerment
In just 12 years, Kodiak Building Partners has gone from inception to No. 11 on our Top Building Materials Distributors List. CEO Steve Swinney details how enabling local empowerment has keyed that growth.
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Here’s Where Distributors Rank on Forbes’ 2023 List of America’s Largest Private Companies
See which industrial, commercial and building supply distributors charted on Forbes' annual list of the largest privately-owned companies by revenue.
