The deal will combine the Nos. 2 and 3 companies on MDM’s 2025 Top Distributors List for JanSan, Packaging & Disposables.
Part 2 of our deep dive on ADI Global Distribution centers on digital as the company’s growth engine as it prepares to become an independent public company in 2026.
This issue’s content contains eight articles that include the last two parts of our Analytics Imperative series; benchmarking research on distributors’ AI adoption; research on distributors’ succession planning; our 2-part “Retooling Distribution for Digital series;...
Margins were hampered by tariff-driven LIFO headwinds, though daily sales continued to gain momentum, especially in Endless Assortment. Get a full breakdown of Grainger’s 2Q stats.
Distributor M&A activity held steady July for a solid but still below average month, highlighted by transactions in the Building Materials, Gases & Welding and Motion Control sectors. Get a full recap of July’s distributor...
As two of America’s freight railroads move to merge, industrial supply chains could see both streamlined coast-to-coast shipping and reduced competitive alternatives in an increasingly consolidated market. Here are the key details and context distributors...
It will create two independent public companies by the end of 2026, with ADI going forward as a $4.5 billion distributor of low-voltage products and solutions.
We chat with Rexel’s North American CEO on what the company has been up to lately and what’s on the horizon. This includes recent acquisitions; Rexel’s U.S.-Canada financial outperformance vs. the group’s Europe counterpart; investments...
Our second quarter MarketPulse shares a wealth of data from the 2Q25 Baird-MDM Industrial Distribution Survey – conducted in early July – that covered respondents’ revenue performance, pricing updates and expectations for the current quarter...
This year of tariffs has made it nearly impossible for distributors to rely on traditional planning cycles or manual cost tracking. This piece illustrates what a proactive distributor looks instead of one that just watches...
We detail the three-year running results of our survey research into the industry’s AI adoption, including a breakdown of AI activity by company size.
Fastenal posted its strongest monthly sales growth since early 2023, with June daily sales up year-over-year amid solid gains across key markets. See our full breakdown of the company’s June and 2Q results.
