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MDM’s September Premium Monthly Intelligence Brief is Here

Formerly our Premium Monthly report — a PDF often spanning 30-40 pages — 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 September Intelligence Brief from the link in this blog or from their Premium Dashboard.

October 2, 2026

The latest downloadable offering from MDM Premium is now available in the form of our September Premium Monthly Intelligence Brief.

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, earlier this summer we worked through revising this asset into 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, our August report packages the key takeaways in eight. 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 September Intelligence Brief here

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Our 9 September Premium articles covered the following:

Our three-part deep dive into ADI Global Distribution’s path forward as a newly-independent, publicly traded distributor
Rexel’s North America M&A push
Analysis of Fastenal’s quiet acquisition of an AI tech provider startup
Our monthly MDM Forecast that provides an updated annual revenue outlook for 20 different product sectors
The time sequence distributors are overlooking on supplier price increases
An analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest wholesale trade sales and inventory data (through July 2026)
September’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.