Craig Riley has joined Modern Distribution Management as Associate Publisher to help grow MDM’s online information and education services focused on wholesale distribution. The move follows a year when MDM saw its weekly e-newsletter base grow 35 percent, and its daily Web site traffic increase 50 percent.

Riley has more than 20 years of publishing and sales experience, most recently as publisher of Industrial Distribution magazine. Riley will have responsibility for working with MDM’s existing online marketing partners and for developing MDM’s online advertising and sponsorship programs internationally.

Our online offerings are focused to help wholesale distribution executives stay informed and ahead of the curve,”said Tom Gale, MDM publisher and president of …