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Cook & Boardman Adds New Exec to Senior Leadership Team

Cook & Boardman Adds New Exec to Senior Leadership Team

Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based Cook & Boardman Group announced that Mark K. Duato has been appointed as the company’s senior vice president of strategic integration solutions. Cook & Boardman, a leading specialty distributor of commercial door entry solutions and systems integration services, said Duato is as a security industry professional whose career has spanned more than […]

Cook & Boardman Adds New Exec to Senior Leadership Team

Cook & Boardman Adds New Exec to Senior Leadership Team

Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based Cook & Boardman Group announced that Mark K. Duato has been appointed as the company’s senior vice president of strategic integration solutions. Cook & Boardman, a leading specialty distributor of commercial door entry solutions and systems integration services, said Duato is as a security industry professional whose career has spanned more than […]

Cook & Boardman Adds New Exec to Senior Leadership Team

Cook & Boardman Adds New Exec to Senior Leadership Team

Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based Cook & Boardman Group announced that Mark K. Duato has been appointed as the company’s senior vice president of strategic integration solutions. Cook & Boardman, a leading specialty distributor of commercial door entry solutions and systems integration services, said Duato is as a security industry professional whose career has spanned more than […]

Specialty Building Products to Acquire DW Distribution

Specialty Building Products to Acquire DW Distribution

Duluth, Georgia-based Specialty Building Products announced Monday it has signed an agreement to acquire DW Distribution, Inc., a distributor of building materials and millwork products in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico. The companies said the move provides expanded product offerings and geographical reach “with a combined focus on serving customers at the highest […]

Behind the Deal: Why Did Rexel Acquire Mayer Electric — and Why Did Mayer Sell?

Behind the Deal: Why Did Rexel Acquire Mayer Electric — and Why Did Mayer Sell?

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 acquisition is sure to shift MDM’s Top Electrical, Data & Security Distributors list for 2022 — Rexel was No. 5 and Mayer was No. 12 in the 2021 rankings. Rexel’s […]

Manufacturing Technology Orders Up Nearly 20% in August

Manufacturing Technology Orders Up Nearly 20% in August

Orders for manufacturing technology in August totaled $560 million, according to the latest U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report published by AMT – The Association for Manufacturing Technology. August showed an increase of nearly 20% over the previous month and 89% over August 2020. The year-to-date total reached $3.55 billion, the highest value through the first […]

Heritage Pool Supply Group Acquires Pool Contractors Supply

Heritage Pool Supply Group Acquires Pool Contractors Supply

McKinney, Texas-based Heritage Pool Supply Group, Inc. announced last week it had acquired Pool Contractors Supply, a Memphis-based wholesale distributor of pool and spa products. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Under the agreement, Heritage will add four locations to its platform as the company expands into the Mid-South region. “Following our recent entrance […]

Questions to Ask to Test the Effectiveness of Your Sales Team

Questions to Ask to Test the Effectiveness of Your Sales Team

Many distribution CEOs, CFOs and sales leaders have restructured their sales organizations in response to the sales challenges brought on by the pandemic. They have reduced marketing expenses, operational costs, experienced a reduction in sales expense and overhead across the organization, and now they are forced to strategically retool sales. Reorganizing and retooling your distribution […]

Do You Have the Right People, in the Right Roles, with the Right Distribution Sales Skills for Today?

Do You Have the Right People, in the Right Roles, with the Right Distribution Sales Skills for Today?

Many distribution CEOs, CFOs and sales leaders have restructured their sales organizations in response to the sales challenges brought on by the pandemic. They have reduced marketing expenses, operational costs, experienced a reduction in sales expense and overhead across the organization, and now they are forced to strategically retool sales. Reorganizing and retooling your distribution […]

Wholesale Trade Sales Down 1.1% in August

Wholesale Trade Sales Down 1.1% in August

Wholesale trade sales dropped 1.1% in August compared to July, but sales were up 20.6% from revised 2020 levels for the same period, according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau. August 2021 sales of merchant wholesalers, except manufacturers’ sales branches and offices, after adjustment for seasonal variations and trading day differences but […]

SRS Acquires Marvic, Expands into Philadelphia Area

SRS Acquires Marvic, Expands into Philadelphia Area

McKinney, Texas-based building products distributor SRS Distribution Inc. announced Friday it had acquired Marvic Supply Company, a residential roofing and construction distributor in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. SRS ranks No. 6 on MDM’s Top Distributors list for building materials and construction distributors, with $3.8 billion in revenue in 2020. “We […]

L&W Supply Picks New Manager for Branch in Michigan

L&W Supply Picks New Manager for Branch in Michigan

Interior construction and building materials distributor L&W Supply announced that Trish Boomsma has been named branch manager of the company’s Grand Rapids, Michigan, location. Boomsma will be responsible for leading L&W Supply’s customer service representatives, delivery drivers and other associates, the company said. Boomsma has worked in the distribution industry for 15 years and spent […]