U.S. construction spending edged higher in May, helped by continued public sector gains and residential improvement. Private nonresidential spending, however, declined for an eighth straight month.

The economic indicator was expected to hold or modestly tick down, as indices for new orders and production both declined month-over-month.

Pricing still did most of the heavy lifting for sales growth, but the volume movement is a positive demand sign for the broader metalworking and MRO supplies market. Get the key figures here.

Do it Best Group is relocating True Value’s headquarters from Chicago to Fort Wayne, IN, bringing the retail-owned hardware chain’s corporate base to the home of its new parent company.

QXO officially closed on its acquisition of TopBuild, adding insulation distribution and installation scale to its fast-growing building products platform and positioning the company near the top of ...

MDM won't deploy an Update newsletter on Friday amid the Fourth of July holiday in the U.S., so it'll be back on Monday.

The deal adds repair and maintenance management technology to Parts Town’s OEM foodservice parts distribution platform.

NetPlus Alliance’s latest Industry Outlook showed a strong start to 2026 among its distributor members, with most reporting ...

You've seen our new Top Distributors Lists. Now, see which companies remained as MDM Industry Titans and which ones joined ...

QXO’s acquisition of TopBuild cleared a major hurdle with shareholder approval from both companies. The transaction is ...

NAW is the only business plaintiff in a multistate lawsuit seeking to block California’s SB 54 packaging law, months after ...

ISM’s Spring 2026 Supply Chain Planning Forecast shows higher revenue, capital spending and capacity utilization expectations ...