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Distributors Optimistic about Strength of Post-COVID Recovery

MDM-Baird Distribution Survey: Recovery starts to heat up in the first quarter while outlook improves for the rest of 2021.

April 23, 2021

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After a difficult 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the recovery in the distribution market continued to blossom in the first quarter of 2021. During MDM webcasts and virtual events that have taken place so far this year, panelists and industry experts alike have expressed a collective optimism for 2021 being a recovery year. This is borne out in the most recent quarterly MDM-Baird Distribution Survey that covers the first quarter of this year. After the pandemic-induced trough in the second quarter of last year, each subsequent quarter showed marked improvement and even more so in the…

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