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MDM’s October Premium Monthly Issue Now Available

This issue's content contains eight articles that cover distributors' expectations for interest rate cut impacts on demand; how the industry balances prioritizing growth vs. resilience; best practices for contract pricing governance; our monthly M&A roundup; a Market Profile on HVACR; and more.

November 5, 2025

MDM Premium

We at MDM have rolled out our October 2025 issue of Premium Monthly — packaging last month’s Premium content into one convenient PDF.

This issue includes eight feature articles, along with our regular news roundup and Market Profile snapshot. Those articles cover the following:

To what extent distributors expect federal interest rate cuts to impact demand
How distributors are balancing prioritizing growth vs. resilience
A two-part on contract pricing governance best practices
Insights from NetPlus’ CEO on how midsize distributors should seek intentional growth amid market consolidation
A deep dive into Fastenal’s Q3 financials and monthly sales growth outperformance
Our monthly distribution M&A roundup, which provides a breakdown of year-to-date dealmaking activity by product vertical and how the pace of M&A compares with a year earlier
Our latest MDM Forecast that projects distribution revenues for 19 different product sectors through 2026

Besides those articles, our October issue includes:

Our Industry Digest of the news we covered throughout the month on distributors, manufacturers, associations, service providers and more
A Market Profile on HVACR – providing a snapshot of U.S. demand by geography and within its top end markets

All of that is now available in our October Premium Monthly report, which is now available. Premium subscribers can download it from their Premium Dashboard (or just click here), and non-subscribers can purchase it here in the MDM Store.

Not a Premium subscriber? You can change that here to get access to the best of MDM’s content.

With NAW’s acquisition of MDM in 2024, NAW members now have complementary access to MDM Premium. If you’re an NAW member, you should activate your Premium subscription here if you haven’t already.

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