Despite the month-to-month regression for 2024 and 2025, full-year revenues are still expected to outperform the U.S. GDP by a healthy margin.
Strategy
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Wesco Analysis, Pt. 1: Scale and Value Proposition
The first in this three-part Premium series examines the state of electrical supplies distributor Wesco International, how it got to this point and the strategic pillars powering the organization.
Market Analysis
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Amazon Business, Home Depot Raise the Disruptor Ante
New tech features and a landmark acquisition illustrate the many elephants in the distribution room today.
Top Distributor Sectors
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Diversification, Fragmentation Drive MDM’s Top Distributors Forward
Accelerated diversification amongst product verticals has complicated our Top Distributors process in recent years, while also making it increasingly fascinating, as this piece explains.
Unexpected results from the distributor’s pilot phase of a web pricing realignment rollout may serve as a cautionary tale for others to avoid emulating.
Economic Trends
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MDM Forecast: Most Sectors See ‘24-25 Rebound
The U.S. wholesale distribution’s sector’s overall revenue outlook for 2024 moved more aligned with its historical growth average, with an even better 2025 to follow.
Data & Analytics
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How to Build Profit with Analytics (and Enhance Your ERP)
In pursuing better cash flow, the challenge is identifying the sales that are canceling profits already made, and that’s where analytics comes in.
Data & Analytics
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Mind Over Metrics: How Cognitive Biases Hinder Analytics ROI
Learn to root out these six cognitive biases within your distribution business to better incorporate analytics and data-driven decision-making.
Examine the potential rooftop solar has for distributors’ ROI, and review a case study of a small distributor getting results from recent installations.
Economic Trends
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MDM Forecast: Most Sectors Slide in May Update
All but two of the 19 wholesale distribution sectors we track moved more pessimistic month-to-month in our May forecast for 2024 revenue growth, which moved into lower single digits.
Mergers & Acquisitions
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A Study of Sonepar’s North American Acquisition Journey
Mike Hockett analyzes Sonepar’s 26-year North American expansion that has led to over $15 billion in 2023 sales, with most of that in the U.S.
Quarterly MDM-Baird Distribution Survey
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Research: Distributors’ Top Business Risks & Concerns
Distributors are dealing with more potential business risks today than ever before. We polled hundreds of them to determine what the biggest risks are, and dissected plenty of interesting commentary.

