At the beginning of 2020, who would predict it to be one of the toughest years most wholesale distribution companies have faced? For more than 10 years, MDM has published an annual chartbook that benchmarks the U.S. wholesale distribution industry with a variety of financial metrics: historic and forecast revenues; average gross margin; employment change; segmentation by company size and industry sectors served.
This Executive Summary provides an overview of our 234-page 2020 Economic Benchmarks for Wholesale Distribution report, based on 2019 data. Given the fundamental upheaval to this $6-trillion industry comprised of 19 sectors, these 2019 financial statistics will be critical benchmarks against which the recovery of the U.S. wholesale distribution industry will be measured over the next several years.
