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With 2024 shaping up to be another big year in distribution M&A, we spoke with several investment banks on the state of industry dealmaking, what’s driving it, best practices and the outlook for 2025.
The Thursday event will be presented by Penny Merian.
The distributor reported a loss of $56 million for the period.
Global Link provides electronics asset disposition services in the Rocky Mountain region.
The PMI registered 49.6 percent, indicating a third consecutive month of contraction.
For the first seven months of 2012, construction spending was $464.4 billion.
The acquisition of Redemtech expands Arrow’s asset disposition services capabilities.
Full report: Excluding transportation, new orders decreased 0.7 percent.
Despite a recent slowdown in shale gas extraction, production is expected to continue driving investments in manufacturing.
Beginning Oct. 1, the distributor will increase prices on select gasses and other products.
Membership in W.I.S.E is by nomination or invitation only.
SAP says their Net Margin Analysis app can save enterprises up to 5 percent on indirect costs in the first year.
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A new study from the Brookings Institute examines why hiring the right workers isn’t any easier with high unemployment.
MAPI report: Chinese surplus continues to grow at a rapid pace.
The acquisition will serve as the ‘cornerstone’ of TTI’s Transportation Business Unit in Asia.
Interline Brands will become a private company.
Salespeople want to see their fingerprints on the redesigned sales compensation plan.
Employment dropped in 165 of 337 U.S. metro areas between July 2011 and July 2012.
The Warehouse Management Systems Wordwide Outlook was released by ARC Advisory Group.
Brent Grover: A companys course will be adjusted according to conditions, but the destination will not change.
This table highlights key financial metrics and trading multiples for 30 publicly traded distributors in the industrial and building products industries. Download the pdf in this article to see the data. Also find graphic illustrating median EBIDTA multiples for the same distribution companies.
Industrial production rose 0.4% in December after a decrease of 0.1% in November. Output in November was previously estimated to have advanced; weaker data for a number of industries, particularly steel, led to the downward revision.
Housing starts in December were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,642,000. This is 4.5 percent (±8.8%) …
Wholesale prices rose 1.1% in all of 2006, in contrast to the 5.4% rise in 2005, the Department of Labor reported. The government attributed the slower rate of advance to the index for finished energy goods, which fell 2% in 2006 after climbing 23.9% a year earlier. Otherwise, wholesale prices except foods and energy moved up 2% in 2006 following a 1.4% gain in 2005.
In November, U.S. distributors’ year-to-date sales of power transmission/motion control products climbed 10.7% as compared to sales for January through November 2005, according to the latest November trend data released by the Power Transmission Distributors Association. Sales fell 3.6% over the previous month and were up 7.8% as compared to November 2005.
Private label products—products branded by a wholesaler-distributor—represent a break from the more traditional wholesale distribution approach of reselling manufacturers' branded products. In our new research study, Facing the Forces of Change®: Lead the Way in the Supply Chain, we found that private label strategies by wholesaler-distributors will expand substantially over the next five years.
Private labels will strengthen wholesaler-distributors' relationships with their customers. However, they will strain distributors' relationships with their suppliers by challenging the wholesale distribution channel's traditional …
1sourcesupplies is an alliance of distributors who want to offer single-sourcing programs to smaller customers, including inventory management, supply chain automation, streamlined billing and information analysis.
Overall U.S. construction in 2007 is forecast to slow from previous levels, thanks to a downturn in residential building, according to recent reports. But nonresidential construction should stay relatively strong in the new year, with institutional and commercial building leading the way.
MSC Industrial Direct Inc., Melville, NY, said in a recent conference call with investors that it has seen a slowdown in revenue growth in the past few months.
Modern Distribution Management’s November Inflation Index, which measures a cross-section of industrial supplies, was up 0.20% from the previous month, and up 4.04% from November 2005.
Summary of  ; MDM Inflation Index for the past 12 months:
November 2006 Index 266.5
October 2006 Index 265.9
September 2006 Index 265.6
August 2006 Index 265.2
July 2006 Index 264.0
June 2006 Index 263.0
May 2006 Index 262.1
April 2006 Index 262.1
March 2006 Index 262.1
Febuary 2006 Index 261.2
January 2006 Index 260.2
December 2005 Index 258.1
November 2005 Index  ; 256.1
Please click below on Related Document to view a detailed calculation of the  ; MDM Inflation Index for November 2006, listing the ten …
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November U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $335.02 million, according to AMTDA, the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association, and AMT – The Association for Manufacturing Technology.
Hype and speculation tend to follow an industry consolidator. The announcement last week that Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli was ousted from his position over pay issues and lagging stock gains generated an inordinate amount of buzz. Some even claimed it is a repudiation of the Home Depot model itself and its relatively recent strategy to aggressively grow the wholesale distribution division.
Prices for manufactured goods in Canada remained unchanged for a second consecutive month in November, while prices for raw materials increased after three months of significant declines.
Construction spending during November 2006 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1,184.1 billion, 0.2 percent below the revised October estimate of $1,186.7 billion. The November figure is 0.1 percent above the November 2005 estimate of $1,183.1 billion.
Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in December following a one-month decline, while the overall economy grew for the 62nd consecutive month, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business.
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