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August M&A Roundup: Busy Month Led by Parts Authority, Hillman, SRS and Grainger

We published news about nearly three dozen different deals in August involving at least one industrial distributor. Get our rundown of all of them, along with our updated monthly deal count and breakdown of year-to-date transactions by product category.

September 1, 2026

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Distributor dealmaking remains healthy entering the fall season of 2026, driven by frequent tuck-in deals alongside bigger deals in the $100 million+ range, and the occasional billion-dollar+ megadeal. We published news of 34 transactions during August — either pending or completed — involving at least one North American-based distributor of industrial, commercial and building supply product categories that have long comprised the core market demographics of MDM readership. That's improved from July's 29 and June's 24, and raises 2026's monthly average to 28.5. For context, 2025 averaged…

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