Profit increased 7.6 percent to $424 million.
McKesson Sales Up 5% in 1Q Read More »
Profit fell 25.6 percent to $81 million.
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Sales up 10.8% in 2Q Read More »
Underlying trends are stabilizing for the European building materials supplier, but sluggish European economies continue to dampen results.
Saint-Gobain Sales Down 2.9% in First Half of 2013 Read More »
L&W, USG’s distribution business, had its first operating profit since 2008.
USG Sales Climb 15% in 2Q Read More »
Frank Roach, current executive for Canada and the U.S., will continue to focus on opportunities for growth in the U.S.
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Most product business saw sequential order growth.
ABB Sales Grow in Second Quarter Read More »
The decline was due in part to decreased demand in industrial distribution.
Timken Sales Fall 16% in 2Q Read More »
Food distribution sales increased 10.3 percent, primarily from acquisitions.
Nash Finch Company Sales Up 9% in Second Quarter Read More »
Industrial and infrastructure sales both declined in the fourth quarter.
Kennametal Organic Sales Down 8% in FY2013 Read More »
Inorganic sales were up 2 percent from the prior year.
Airgas Organic Sales Flat in Fiscal 1Q Read More »
Sales for 3M’s industrial business grew 6.6 percent in the quarter.
3M Organic Sales Up 2.3% in Second Quarter Read More »
Profit was $400,000 for the quarter, compared to a year-ago loss of $61.2 million.
Lawson Products Sales Up 1.6% in Second Quarter Read More »
Modern Distribution Management's monthly Industrial Inflation Index measures a cross-section of industrial supplies.
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Robert W. Baird & Co., in partnership with Modern Distribution Management, conducted a survey of more than 500 distributors and manufacturers to gauge business trends and the outlook for the distribution industry in diverse sectors. This article is a summary of second-quarter results and distributor and manufacturer expectations for 2013.
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Many distributors are launching services or spinning-off separate service-based companies. But to do this successfully, it's critical to build out a services portfolio by design.
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It would be natural for a business leader to assume that their customers operate in the same way that they do. But according to Bob DeStefano, president of SVM E-Marketing Solutions, business today has reached a tipping point where “generation net” workers outnumber baby boomers, and the way they do business is different from past generations.
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Sales and inventories data for wholesaler-distributors in May 2013.
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Overall sales were up 13.2 percent for the electrical distributor, thanks to acquisitions.
WESCO Organic Sales Fall 1.2% in Second Quarter Read More »
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