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Analysis: 2024’s Industrial Distribution M&A, and 2025 Expectations

We break down 2024's dealmaking activity by volume vs. 2023, what the most impactful transactions were, which distributors were frequent headliners and what to expect in 2025.

January 3, 2025

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With the calendar turned to 2025, let’s take a look back at the year that was 2024 in distribution mergers and acquisitions activity. The past 12 months showed that M&A continues to serve as a vital industry driver — both in helping companies achieve scale through revenue and resource assimilation and as an impetus for innovation by infusing new cultures, talent and ideas into growing organizations.

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Despite an aggressive pace of distribution M&A in the first half of the current decade —…

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