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The Business Areas Distributors Are Most Concerned About in 2023

We share commentary from the newest Baird-MDM Industrial Distribution Survey that highlights the issues viewed as most worrisome in the year ahead.

August 8, 2022

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Let’s face it: As optimistic as I’d like to be, there’s good reasons for distributors to be anxious through the final five months of 2022. Just to name a few, there’s the likelihood that end user demand across most of the product verticals MDM covers

will slow

from the tepid rate we’ve seen over the past year; such a slowdown will force distributors to re-strategize their pricing that has produced robust revenues in 2021-2022; amid a better-than-expected July U.S. employment report, we’re likely to see yet another considerable hike in Federal interest rates; supply chain backlogs still have…

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