Interline Brands, Inc., Jacksonville, FL, distributor and direct marketer of maintenance, repair and operations products, reported sales for the second quarter ended June 26, 2009, were down 13.3% to $269.9 million from the prior-year period.

Average organic daily sales decreased 14.7% for the quarter.

Interline’s facilities maintenance end-market, which comprised 74% of sales, declined 7.8% during the second quarter on an average daily sales basis, and declined 9.9% on an average organic daily sales basis. The professional contractor end-market, which comprised 16% of sales, declined 28.4% in the quarter and the specialty distributor end-market, which comprised 10% of sales, declined 20.6% for the quarter.

Profit (net income) was $6.4 million in the second quarter, compared …