According to Adam Fein, author of the 2008 Wholesale Distribution Economic Reports, 2008 will be a positive year for industrial distributors, though growth will be slower and uneven across the country. Industrial distributors are tied more closely to the industrial manufacturing economy than any other wholesale distribution sector, Fein writes in the latest issue of MDM. (Click here to view the issue.)

Revenues of industrial distributors rise and fall with manufacturing activity, though the link has become slightly weaker in recent years as more traditional industrial distributors diversify into …