To continue reading this article you must be a paid subscriber. Subscribe to MDM Already Subscribed? Click here to log-in | Forgot your password? Thanks to a strong background of overseeing digital transformation at well-known retail and consumer brands like Verizon, Canon and New York & Co., Chintan Patel was able to bring a B2C […]
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Jayne Millard Has Built a Lasting Legacy at Turtle & Hughes — and in the Industry
To continue reading this article you must be a paid subscriber. Subscribe to MDM Already Subscribed? Click here to log-in | Forgot your password? Last November, Jayne Millard stepped down from her position as CEO at Turtle & Hughes, the Linden, New Jersey-based electrical distributor that her grandmother and mother before her had led. While […]
Katie Parris is Putting Her Own Stamp on the Family Plumbing Business
To continue reading this article you must be a paid subscriber. Subscribe to MDM Already Subscribed? Click here to log-in | Forgot your password? Katie Parris’ path to president and CEO of The Part Works Inc., a Seattle-based plumbing distributor, is a familiar one for second-generation business owners. But what she’s done with the company […]
Anne Vranicic Can Handle it All for Valin Corp.
To continue reading this article you must be a paid subscriber. Subscribe to MDM Already Subscribed? Click here to log-in | Forgot your password? Anne Vranicic is officially Valin Corp.’s vice president of marketing, but her duties extend well beyond that title. It’s more of a starting point for where and how she deploys her […]
Amazon Business GM Leading Way for Company’s Soaring Growth
To continue reading this article you must be a paid subscriber. Subscribe to MDM Already Subscribed? Click here to log-in | Forgot your password? Though she began her career in academics, Petra Schindler-Carter pivoted to the business world during the dot-com era and then joined Amazon in the early 2000s. The company is glad she […]
‘Entrepreneurial Mindset’ Pays Off for Riverhawk Industrial Supply’s Sarah Finlayson
To continue reading this article you must be a paid subscriber. Subscribe to MDM Already Subscribed? Click here to log-in | Forgot your password? Sarah Finlayson isn’t the typical second-generation distribution business owner. She didn’t grow up sweeping the warehouse as a kid. She wasn’t a sales and marketing intern in high school. Her parents, […]
Graybar’s Kathy Mazzarella is the ‘Dean’ of Women Leaders in Distribution
To continue reading this article you must be a paid subscriber. Subscribe to MDM Already Subscribed? Click here to log-in | Forgot your password? When describing Kathy Mazzarella in her nomination of the Graybar executive for MDM’s inaugural Women in Distribution awards, C.H. Briggs Co. Inc. CEO Julia Klein paid Mazzarella one of the highest […]
Deb Swambar Returns Home to Distribution, Makes Impact Beyond HR
To continue reading this article you must be a paid subscriber. Subscribe to MDM Already Subscribed? Click here to log-in | Forgot your password? In 2019, after working for a few years at a manufacturer, Deb Swambar decided it was time to return to distribution. She had spent time earlier in her career at W.W. […]
Allie Copeland Exemplifies Leadership When It’s Needed the Most
To continue reading this article you must be a paid subscriber. Subscribe to MDM Already Subscribed? Click here to log-in | Forgot your password? The two ADI Global Distribution colleagues who nominated Allie Copeland, vice president of global operations, for MDM’s Women in Distribution Awards had little trouble detailing Copeland’s contributions to the company. They […]
Wholesale Trade Sales Up 6.4% in February
Wholesale trade improved in February compared to the same month a year ago but was down from the previous month of January, according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau. February sales of merchant wholesalers, except manufacturers’ sales branches and offices, after adjustment for seasonal variations and trading day differences but not for […]
Are Your Leadership Skills Ready for the Future?
2021 is a watershed year for leaders because they’re about to ask their employees to undertake a third business model in less than 18 months, said storyteller, educator and author Jim “Pouli” Pouliopoulos. “There was the way they worked before COVID, there was what they did during COVID, and now we’re saying, ‘Oh, by the […]
US LBM Divisions Add Roofing Products
Specialty building materials distributor US LBM Holdings LLC, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, on Thursday announced that two of the company’s operating divisions in Florida — Coastal Roofing Supply and Raymond Building Supply — have partnered to add roofing products at the company’s North Port and North Fort Myers locations. At both locations, Raymond Building Supply will […]
Atlas Copco Acquires Spanish Vacuum Distributor
Swedish industrial manufacturer Atlas Copco on Wednesday announced it has acquired IBVC Vacuum S.L.U, aka Iberica Vacuum. The company’s customers are mainly industrial and scientific companies as well as universities and research institutes in Spain and Portugal. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Iberica Vacuum, which is privately owned and has 10 employees, is […]
MSC’s Sales Dip 1.5% in Fiscal 2Q
Industrial distributor MSC Industrial Supply Co. (NYSE: MSM), Melville, New York, reported sales of $774 million for its fiscal second quarter, a 1.5% decrease compared to the year-ago period. Quarterly profit was $18.1 million, a 67.4z% decrease compared with the second quarter last year. For the first six months the company reported sales of $1.5 […]
Goods and Services Deficit Grows in February
The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis on Wednesday announced that the goods and services deficit was $71.1 billion in February, up $3.3 billion from $67.8 billion in January, revised. February exports were $187.3 billion, $5 billion less than January exports. February imports were $258.3 billion, $1.7 billion less than January imports. The […]
Grainger Subsidiary Imperial Supplies to Relocate North Carolina Warehouse
Imperial Supplies LLC, a Green Bay, Wisconsin-based subsidiary of W.W. Grainger, Inc. company (NYSE: GWW), on Tuesday announced it will be moving its Charlotte, North Carolina, warehouse operations seven miles away to a new development in Salisbury, North Carolina. Imperial’s new distribution center, one of five nationwide, will more than triple the footprint of its […]
NOW Inc. Completes Flex Flow Acquisition
NOW Inc. (NYSE: DNOW), Houston, has closed its acquisition of Flex Flow, Midland, Texas, from GR Energy Services Holdings LP, a portfolio company of the private equity firm Pine Brook Partners. Financial terms of the all-cash deal weren’t disclosed. NOW said Flex Flow significantly expands its “existing product offering with the addition of its rental product solution, […]
Motion Names Director of Corporate Development
MRO distributor Motion Industries Inc., Birmingham, Alabama, on Monday announced that it has promoted Jim May to director of corporate development, effective April 1. May joined Motion in August 2020 as director of strategic planning and development to advance the company’s corporate strategic planning, provide economic, industry and competitor analyses, and support deal-side acquisition execution […]
Winsupply Acquires Allegheny Pipe & Supply
Winsupply Inc., Dayton, Ohio, on Monday announced it has acquired Allegheny Pipe & Supply, a Coraopolis, Pennsylvania-based distributor of industrial pipe, valves and fittings. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Allegheny Pipe & Supply is located just west of Pittsburgh and serves the tri-state region of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. The company’s third-generation […]
AD Names First CMO
Wayne, Pennsylvania-based buying group AD on Friday announced that it has appointed Marty McLaughlin as its first chief marketing officer. McLaughlin is “charged with collaborating with AD’s members and boards to identify new areas of added value for its community, beyond the core functions of a buying and marketing group,” AD said in a statement. […]
