MDM’s marquee event this past September highlighted the importance of relationship-based sales models and omni-channel integration. Here’s our key takeaways.
Economic Trends
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MDM Forecast: November 2024 Update
Things moved more optimistically overall in our latest forecast update for both 2024 and 2025 revenues.
Strategy
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How Watsco Drives Growth with a Tech-First Mindset
The final leg of this three-part series examines the HVACR supplier’s perception of being a technology company that happens to distribute products, and how it’s followed through on it.
Strategy
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Wesco’s Core Business Transformation Strategy, from its CEO
We analyze the Wesco CEO’s insights shared at our 2024 event, where he detailed the company’s transformative journey of integrating Anixter, alongside scaling, innovating and maintaining a resilient culture.
Mergers & Acquisitions
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Investment Bank Insights: Private Equity’s Role in M&A, Pt. 1
With 2024 shaping up to be another big year in distribution M&A, we spoke with several investment banks on the state of industry dealmaking, what’s driving it, best practices and the outlook for 2025.
Economic Trends
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PREMIUM & NAW EXCLUSIVE: MDM’s 4Q Snapshot Webcast Now Available
It provides a thorough look at the state of the U.S. wholesale distribution economy today and what factors are influencing underlying demand.
Quarterly MDM-Baird Distribution Survey
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MDM Research: How is the U.S. Presidential Election Impacting Demand?
!!Presidential election years can cause business caution when it comes to spending. We asked hundreds of distributors about it in an October survey.
Building Materials/Construction
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How Decentralization Helped Scale ABC Supply to a $20B Distributor
ABC Supply’s CEO shares a scaling secret that defies business school teachings. Learn how decentralization fueled the building supply distributor’s rise to the top.
We polled nearly 200 distributors about how their budgets for attending industry events has changed in the past several years. Here’s what the data told us.
Strategy
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Scaling Success: Watsco’s Digital Commerce Evolution
The second of this three-part series examines the HVACR distributor’s decade-transformation of its digital commerce offering, which the company says is still in the early stages of organizational adoption.
Operations
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Brace and Rebound: How Distribution Navigates a Port Strike
Explore the response and recovery of a sweeping three-day port strike on the distribution industry in this Logistics Liaison series. Who was prepared?
Economic Trends
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MDM Forecast: 2024 Weakens, 2025 Holds Steady
This year is shaping up to have less than half the annual growth that was originally projected, illustrating longer-than-expected industrial softness.

