Mergers & Acquisitions

Breaking Down the DSG-Hisco Acquisition and its Market Impact

It combines the No. 34 and No. 38 companies on MDM’s 2022 Top Industrial Distributors List. Mike Hockett dives into the details.

April 5, 2023

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The news wave of Distribution Solutions Group’s March 31 announcement that it will acquire fellow industrial distributor Hisco is still reverberating throughout our audience. But now that a week has passed, I wanted to break down the additional details and insights that DSG shared about this deal in its follow-up investor call just hours after it alerted the masses. With a potential total purchase price of $319 million, this deal may pale in comparison to Motion’s $1.3 billion acquisition of Kaman Distribution Group at the start of 2022, but it’s arguably the biggest one since then among…

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