Year-to-year food prices abated to 11.6%, which is historically high but also the lowest annual increase since October 2021.
Lincoln Smith discusses how incentive programs can help lower your cost to serve amid a nationwide labor shortage.
December 2022 cutting tool consumption totaled $188.4 million, according to the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute and The Association For Manufacturing Technology.
Over the past 12 months, the all-items index increased 6.4% before seasonal adjustment, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Despite the decline in January, backlog remains elevated by historical standards and is 0.1 months higher than in February 2020.
In the second of a two-part series, John Johnson covers how distributors can take advantage of the movement to reshore sourcing and shorten supply chains.
It was a second-straight record revenue year for the wholesale trade sector. Here, we break down the key latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.
What should we expect in economic performance, inflation, labor and more in the next two years? Mike Hockett distills takeaways from Alan Beaulieu’s economic outlook presentation at the NAW Executive Summit.
In the first of a two-part series, John Johnson examines the key factors leading manufacturers to domesticate more of their production and what distributors should keep an eye on.
Construction job openings also increased by 82,000 in December, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis.
We polled distributors to ask if those that lost customers amid the height of supply chain issues in the past few years are starting to see those customers return. See the exclusive results and commentary...
It was the index’s ninth straight month of decline, and third straight in contraction territory.
