If you’re an MDM Premium subscriber, you may have wondered what happened to our Premium Monthly PDF report that showed all of our articles from each month in one PDF. Those PDFs were huge, often 30-40 pages depending on the number of articles and their length, and it was dense to page through to find the specific article you might be looking for.

So, we spent the past month working on revising what a downloadable monthly Premium content report could and should look like, and out of that, we’ve created MDM’s Premium Monthly Intelligence Brief.

We know our Premium readers don’t have time to read every word of Premium content MDM publishes each month, so we’ve evolved our former Premium Monthly PDF into this briefing — a concise, executive-friendly report designed to provide a quick glance at the month’s content and the key takeaways from each article. Whereas Premium Monthly was regularly 30+ pages in its previous format, this new report packages the key takeaways in six. It is intended to give distribution executives a timely download of the best of MDM’s Premium reporting, helping you quickly absorb the ideas, trends and strategic signals that mattered most during the month.

Premium members can download their July Intelligence Brief here

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Our eight July Premium articles covered the following:

• Our Research on the state of distributor-supplier relationships
• Parts 3 and 4 of Bart Tessel’s Lean Six Sigma in distribution series
• A thorough analysis of Fastenal’s quarterly financials and market outperformance
• Our monthly MDM Forecast that provides an updated annual revenue outlook for 20 different product sectors
• Part 3 of our Grainger deep dive series that will be soon turned into our next MDM Case Study
• QXO’s stated playbook centered on scale, transformation and technology
• July’s M&A Roundup

June Premium Content

Since we didn’t publish a June Premium recap at its usual timing, we wanted to include that here. Premium subscribers can download their June Intelligence Brief here 

This issue includes our eight feature articles from the month that covered the following:

• Parts 1-2 of our Grainger deep dive that will soon be packaged into an MDM Case Study
• An inspection of the growing pricing power gap between large and small distributors
• AI’s role in Lean Six Sigma
• City Electric Supply’s new services rollout
• Our monthly MDM Forecast that provides an updated annual revenue outlook for 20 different product sectors
• What 3M’s “Ask 3M” AI customer tool means for distributors
• June’s M&A Roundup

With MDM being a part of NAW, NAW members have complimentary access to MDM Premium. If you’re an NAW member, you should activate your Premium subscription here if you haven’t already.

Other recent MDM & NAW Research Reports:

• • 2Q26 NAW M&A Report — Premium access, Store link
  • 3Q26 NAW Forecast Report — Premium access, Store link
  • MDM Case Study: Stellar Industrial Supply — Premium access, Store link
  • MDM Case Study: Singer Industrial — Premium access, Store link
  • MDM 1Q26 MarketPulse Report – Premium access, Store link
  • MDM Case Study: Ludwig Meister — Premium access, Store link
  • MDM Case Study: LINC Systems – Premium access, Store link
  • MDM Case Study: MSC Industrial Supply – Premium access, Store link
  • MRO Market Trends Report – Store link
  • Family-Owned Business Report – Premium access, Store link