2011

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Commentary: Opportunity from Uncertainty in Today’s Roller Coaster Markets

Management, Strategy, Subscriber Only / Tom Gale

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BDI Acquires PneumaTrek National

Finance, Free, Mergers & Acquisitions, News, Power Transmission/Motion Control/Fluid Power, Subscriber Only, Top Distributor Sectors / MDM Staff

PneumaTrek supplies pneumatics, hydraulic systems and fluid power components to businesses in the Salt Lake City area.

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M&A Special Report, Part 3: Strategic Acquirers Pick Up the Pace

Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Subscriber Only / Lindsay Konzak

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Strategic buyers such as Grainger, Applied Industrial Technologies, Ferguson and other large, public and family-owned distributors are pursuing growth through acquisitions to meet market expectations, take advantage of high levels of cash on their balance sheets, and reach new geographic and product markets.

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This article, the third in a series on current conditions in distribution M&A, explores strategic buyer trends in today’s distribution M&A markets.

Allan Chartier – president, CEO and owner of Midwest Industrial Tools Inc. – wasn’t necessarily looking to sell his Omaha, NE-based industrial MROP distribution company.

But when DGI Supply, a DoAll Company, approached him, he gave …

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