Industrial Distribution Group, Inc., Atlanta, GA, which has just agreed to be purchased by Platinum Equity, reported sales for 2007 were $537.5 million, compared with $547.9 million in 2006. Profit was $4.1 million, compared with $6.8 million last year.

Despite challenging conditions in key markets, including auto manufacturing, manufactured housing and the RV industry, I’m obviously not satisfied with this level of sales growth. I believe there are opportunities to improve the growth rate, as a result of our new organizational structure, our IT systems and process improvements we’ve made over the past couple of years,” CEO Charlie Lingenfelter said in a conference call with analysts.
 

Revenues in the fourth quarter were $135.5 million, up from $131.6 …