January 10, 2020 - Modern Distribution Management

January 10, 2020

Download this Issue as a PDF: January 10, 2020

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Cyberthreats Trending in 2020: 6 Steps to Manage the Risk

When setting priorities for the new year, consider incorporating cybersecurity predictions for 2020 into your overall business planning. Distributors working to differentiate and transform digital processes and services face a growing number of threats from cybercriminals looking to capitalize on pressures to innovate in areas such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing and mobile device optimization.

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Commentary: Accountability Helps Strengthen New-Year Resolve

A couple of weeks into 2020, it’s about that time of year when our New Year’s resolutions can start to lose their shine and our motivation might wane. There’s plenty of literature out there about why our resolutions often fail or never get off the ground in the first place. One reason is a lack

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State of Distributor Marketing, Pt. 2: How to Articulate Your Real Value Through Marketing

Tunnel vision around the importance of logistical capabilities and low price to customers may be keeping distributors from promoting the real benefits many say are important to their value propositions, including helping the end customer to reduce cost and decrease equipment failure. Every time we’ve asked distributors in the past five years whether or not

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Market Snapshot: Industrial Lubricants

Market demand for Industrial Lubricants in the U.S. was $8.9 billion in 2018, according to data from MDM Analytics. All estimates are 2018 end-user demand, in U.S. dollars, including distributor margin. Estimates are based on data compiled by MDM Analytics, Niwot, Colorado, and analyzed by MDM. Click Here

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News Digest 5001

Distributor WESCO International Inc., Pittsburgh, has confirmed that it is seeking to acquire Anixter International Inc., Glenview, Illinois. The offer is valued at $90 per Anixter share. The offer came one day after Anixter reported it had agreed to a bid worth $86 per share and $2.50 per share contingent value rights from private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier &

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