With less industry concern over the economy and supply chain, August gave MDM a chance to explore other topics that haven’t dominated headlines in 2023.
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STAFDA CEO Georgia Foley stops by to discuss the association's new educational initiative, how U.S. Infrastructure Bill funds are impacting industry demand and to preview the group's annual convention.
Strandquist's career included executive roles at Martin, Optimas Solutions and Würth Industry North America.
With budgets and operational planning already eyeing the year ahead, Mike Marks and Tom Gale explore where distributors have the most leverage, and where their common gaps are.
The rule would raise the salary threshold for guarantee overtime pay from its current $35,668 to $55,000 and include a future provision.
It's the distributor's second deal in as many months, further boosting its Industrial Parts and Engineered Repair Services business units.
While in contraction territory for a 10th straight month, a handful of key subindexes trended positive vs. July.
We're off Monday for Labor Day, and we hope you are too. Our Update newsletter will be back in action Tuesday morning.
Mike Hockett analyzes the MRO products giant’s physical presence, which has surpassed 30 million square feet.
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The MRO products distributor's project will create at least 250 full-time jobs by the facility's sixth year of operation.
As Aug. 26 marks Women’s Equality Day in the U.S., we share a conversation with a newly-promoted Sonepar subsidiary branch manager about her background and perspective on women in the industry.
See which MDM-oriented distributors made Inc.'s annual list of the fastest-growing privately held companies in America.
Mike Hockett dives into the distributor’s sponsorship of a NASCAR XFINITY Series race car, focusing on the many benefits the distributor is seeing from it.
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The distributor also announced a new leader for its Industrial Parts and Engineered Repair Services segments.
It adds 18 locations and 220 employees to Border States as its first acquisition in 18 months.
We examine the latest economic trending data as it pertains to wholesale distributors, including their revenue expectations through next year.
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July's PPI increased at a faster pace in July vs. June, with core CPI posting its biggest one-month increase since February.
Consumer prices increased at a slightly higher pace than in June, while core inflation ticked downward.
AFC Industries has burst onto MDM's Top Industrial Distributors scene after several years of frequent acquisitions. We chat with CEO Kevin Godin about how the company has successfully managed all of its recent growth.
Alongside MDM’s own mid-September SHIFT Conference, see a rundown of all the industry events on our radar through early December.
