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June 9, 2025
The latest AMT report showed a slight decrease from April but a 1.8% increase compared to the same period a year earlier.
The company updated corrective actions it’s taken in the wake of complexities in MSC’s web pricing realignment rollout from earlier this year, which directly weakened sales and profits.
PMA said its members report a general sense of uncertainty over industrial demand, the election outcome, and whether tariffs will increase.
The two companies had combined revenue of just over $20 million in 2023 and have 58 employees.
MSC cited complexities in its web pricing realignment rollout as hurting March-May results, alongside weakness in heavy manufacturing.
Orders through the first months of the year were up nearly 5% over 2023.
March orders typically see a large bump, as many sector manufacturers end their fiscal year at the end of the month.
It marks Blackhawk’s 11th deal since the start of 2022.
The company noted that while 2Q sales were disappointing, gross margin improvement stemmed from internal improvements.
It follows the news that the distributor is selling its wholesale hardware unit to House-Hassan.
Mars Supply President Bob Mars joins to discuss his company’s century milestone and what it’s taken to achieve it, what has changed in distribution in his 47 years there, and what hasn’t.
Consumption also increased 4.1% year-over-year, rebounding from December’s declines.
