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MDM’s October Premium Monthly Intelligence Brief is Here

Our Intelligence Brief provides a consise, synthesized eight-page briefing that extracts the biggest takeaways and themes from the articles published each month. It's perfect for busy executives. Premium members can get our it from the link in this blog or from their Premium Dashboard.

November 3, 2026

The latest downloadable offering from MDM Premium is now available in the form of our October 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, our Intelligence Briefs synthesize and package the key takeaways in six to eight pages. 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. Meanwhile, readers are still able to quickly view each article in-full with just one click from their hyperlinks.

Premium members can download their October Intelligence Brief here

Not a Premium member? Change that here to access the best of MDM’s content, or you can purchase it here in the NAW Store.

Our nine October Premium articles covered the following:

Our research on how political uncertainty was shaping distributor decisions ahead of U.S. midterm elections
Analysis of Fastenal’s strong 3Q gains that met a softer finish
Closing the supplier visibility gap while complementing your ERP
Our monthly MDM Forecast that provides an updated annual revenue outlook for 20 different product sectors
The tariff pricing hangover distributors must fix before 2027
What Global Industrial’s trade show revealed about its customer growth strategy
An analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest wholesale trade sales and inventory data (through August 2026)
October’s M&A Roundup

NAW members have complimentary access to MDM Premium/NAW Professional. If you’re an NAW member, you should activate your Premium subscription here if you haven’t already.