Tish Drake joins MDM as Senior Vice President, Publishing and Bob Jordan as Vice President, Business Development.
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There is a strong business case for more gender diversity in workplace leadership.
How did the public distributors (and manufacturers relevant to this space) perform in the calendar third quarter? Our recap provides highlights of their revenue and earnings results.
What’s on tap for 2021? In this exclusive video, Brian Lewandowski of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder provides distributors a macro view of wholesale distribution and the broader U.S. economy.
In this exclusive video, Baird analysts Dave Manthey and Quinn Fredrickson go behind the numbers of the latest MDM-Baird Distribution Survey. In this 16-minute video, they speak with MDM CEO Tom Gale about the industry’s performance and projections.
M&A activity kicked off the fourth quarter in style, as October registered the highest volume of distribution deals since before the pandemic. Here is our recap of the industry’s latest moves.
Strategic activity from leading distributors like Ferguson, Grainger and Fastenal led to the most-read blogs of October 2020.
Applied Industrial Technologies hopes to grow revenue 40% to $4.5 billion in the coming years, and M&A will not surprisingly play a huge role in that ambitious pursuit. Here’s what company leaders said about their acquisition strategy moving forward.
Five questions to ask yourself that will help measure the effectiveness of your e-commerce capabilities.
After Grainger posted a moderate improvement in the third quarter, company executives dished on the distributor’s approach to acquiring new customers and how it is bolstering the company. Here's what they shared.
A strong individual online presence can mean good things for your distribution company.
After being acquired by a private equity firm and combined with Construction Supply Group, White Cap is now a $4 billion building materials distribution juggernaut. Where will the company rank among MDM's Market Leaders?
U.S. manufacturers are digitizing at twice the rate of other businesses, Alibaba.com survey finds.
How the online juggernaut uses AI-backed search expertise to improve its e-commerce effectiveness and overcome competitors.
There are popular rules that can almost always be broken, while others deserve some skepticism or flexibility, says consultant Robert Sabath.
Analytics tools not only help distributors become more agile, but in this time of increasingly complex supply chains, they can also alleviate stock-outs — and ease customers’ minds. But don’t forget the key components of building this capability.
Despite just 2.5% sales growth in the third quarter, Fastenal is poised to take market share in industrial distribution, according to one analyst. See what the distributor has working in its favor.
Amazon’s success is not an accident. It is the result of imaginative planning, technological enablement and top-notch execution — that distributors can emulate.
We have the opportunity to question the efficiency and effectiveness of our daily routines now like never before.
Where did distributor revenues land in the third quarter? What’s the outlook for 4Q and beyond? We answer those questions and more in this preview of the latest MDM-Baird Distribution Survey — and the results might surprise you.
