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October M&A Roundup: DSG, ORS Lead Relatively Quiet Month

Get our rundown of every deal we published during October, along with our updated monthly deal count and breakdown of year-to-date transactions by product category.

November 2, 2026

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M&A April 2022

The number of mergers and acquisitions in distribution/manufacturing climbed in April after plateauing during the first three months of 2022.

October came and went a solid but mostly ho-hum month of distributor M&A transactions, with a pair of medium-sized deals leading activity that was mostly tuck-in or private equity platform-based.

MDM published news of 25 individual transactions during October — either pending or completed — involving at least one North American-based distributor of industrial, commercial or building supply product categories that have long comprised the core market demographics of our readership.

What Buyers Want in a More Selective Distribution M&A Market – Aug. 21

That figure trailed the 26, 30 and 35 deals…

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