Mortensen is expected to help guide initiatives around workforce development, safety certification, and best practices.

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SiteOne completed two acquisitions year-to-date: Pacific Nurseries and Green Trade Nursery.
Grainger has not yet seen meaningful tariff-driven customer demand shifts.
Wesco posted net sales of $5.34 billion.
Applied reported net sales of $1.17 billion, up 1.8% from the prior year.
Executives reaffirmed full-year guidance, but analysts see risk.
Revenue for the quarter ended March 29 totaled $5.32 billion.
Wall Street analysts reacted positively to DSG’s performance.
Results were driven by strong double-digit growth in the e-commerce business.
How Stellar Industrial and Palmer-Donavin are meeting customer expectations.
Hillman Solutions Corp. reported modest revenue growth in the first quarter of 2025 but saw a sharp decline in free cash flow and warned
Jacobs cited QXO’s plans to roll out AI-driven pricing engines, dynamic ordering portals, and predictive inventory tool.
Global Industrial Co. reported better-than-expected earnings in the first quarter, highlighting improved margins, disciplined spending, and growth in key strategic accounts—despite flat revenue and
Unilever PLC, one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies with 2024 global sales of approximately $65 billion, has expanded its cloud-based eB2B distribution
Applico Capital has launched a new private equity division aimed at helping large B2B distributors adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to modernize operations and
QXO Inc. has completed its $11 billion acquisition of Beacon Roofing Supply, in a transaction that Wall Street analysts say could fundamentally change the
The distributor is targeting a highly fragmented $50 billion market.
The newly launched HVAC Distributor University builds on EGIA’s past distributor-focused training efforts.
New orders for U.S. manufactured durable goods surged in March, rising 9.2% to $315.7 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest report released
Graybar’s profit fell 4.1% for the quarter.