Industry insiders from Cascade Partners share tips on navigating what should be a “really strong year” for M&A, plus we’ve got the early details on MDM’s Virtual M&A Summit occurring in February.
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Marc Strandquist, the recently appointed president and CEO of Optimas OE Solutions LLC, has been in the fasteners industry his entire professional career. He spoke with MDM about his path, his new company and his outlook for the industry.
MDM has compiled some recent economic outlooks for 2021, most of which are promising, but we’d love to know what you expect for your distribution business and the industry as a whole next year.
Many distributors are under the assumption that if they load a bunch of content onto their website and/or into one-off marketing emails, they’ve done their job. But such a Create It and They Will Come strategy can be a waste of time and resources.
After low-single-digit growth in 1Q, plumbing and HVAC distributor Ferguson PLC projects for the coming year accelerating M&A activity plus upbeat residential construction and renovation to offset softness in the commercial market.
And other critical reasons why e-commerce investment is the smart choice for nearly all distributors, from Channel Marketing Group's David Gordon.
Duncan-Parnell, Radwell International and Stellar Industrial Supply all benefited from company-wide data analysis efforts to keep customer relationships strong and build more efficient business practices.
Donnie Williamson joins MDM as Manager, Data Analytics, with a background at McNaughton-McKay Electric Company.
Go behind the scenes of Ferguson and Grainger, learn what’s driving building material M&A, discover the distribution leaders of tomorrow and see what Amazon does better than anyone by checking out MDM’s most-read blogs from last month.
Not only has activity rebounded despite the rise in coronavirus cases and corresponding lockdowns, but also multibillion-dollar deals are happening more frequently. Here’s our M&A recap from a very busy month.
In the latest MDM interview, Barry Litwin, CEO of Systemax — the publicly traded parent of Global Industrial and other businesses — discussed the company’s 3Q performance, what’s driving growth in 2020 and the “permanency” of pandemic-related products.
The latest group of MDM Future Leader Award winners are setting the stage for the next generation of distribution with their focus on technology-based initiatives.
The news has mostly been good since our last update on the reports affecting wholesale distribution, manufacturing and the overall economy, but as coronavirus cases rise, so do fears of a so-called “COVID-19 cliff.”
Optimize operations, prevent theft and prioritize employee health with the assistance of IoT at work, says Sigfox USA's Eddie Meyersick.
Practical tips to improve your self-confidence, stress tolerance and influence — all of which have suffered during the global pandemic.
If public companies are saving on T&E, how much of a T&E increase will they be able to justify to Wall Street if it reduces earnings and doesn’t increase sales?
The recent flurry of high-profile, high-dollar M&A deals involving building material distributors like HD Supply, US LBM and Foundation Building Supply has sparked plenty of shakeup but also shined a light on this sector.
How owning customers’ attention and their data pays off big for the massive e-commerce site.
Like most organizations during the last eight months of the coronavirus crisis, the Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA) was forced to move its in-person events to virtual.
