Fastenal Investor Day Slide - March 13, 2025 One of the biggest stories I have been writing about this past year has been on Business transformation, and on the very large end of the distribution demographic landscape, perhaps no company exemplifies long-term, wholesale change than Fastenal. Yesterday on March 13th Fastenal held a close to 6-hour Investor Day presentation … [Read more...] about Fastenal Investor Day Insights – Opinion
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Q1 Pulse of Industrial Supply Survey Now Open
The quarter started with bad weather in many parts of the country. From freezing cold to snow … and yes, snow in Florida, New Orleans, and Texas. While Mother Nature had her way the political winds from Washington, DC are also causing trepidation. Consider: Tariffs on China … Canada and Mexico On, then off, then on, then off / delayed, to now possible early April tariffs … [Read more...] about Q1 Pulse of Industrial Supply Survey Now Open
Opinion: Industrial Tariff talk – Tips on how to prepare for wherever the market goes
This month has been an interesting one as a content provider for the Industrial Channel. We have been writing, crossing out, rewriting on the impact of tariff battles between the US, Canada, Mexico and China. We had a number of articles ready to publish then had to hit the stop button to react to another announced change. We have tariffs go from the "Let's get ready to … [Read more...] about Opinion: Industrial Tariff talk – Tips on how to prepare for wherever the market goes
What Industrial end customer trends are crucial for 2025?
In 2015 when I was on the HD Supply distribution team, I started some research with the goal of getting feedback to make better pricing decisions with direct surveys for our associates. We were roughly a $2 billion dollar business trying to improve our GM% and profits. Over the past ten years that survey has grown in size and scope to include end customers, distributor … [Read more...] about What Industrial end customer trends are crucial for 2025?
Inventory Positions could be the top growth driver for industrial distribution in 2025
Managing your inventory is the key to drive top-line sales and gross margin performance in 2025 – In a recent discussion with Brent Johnstone from ACTvantage we talked about how industrial distributors can increase gross margin without hurting top-line sales in 2025. When we both started into distribution, the prevailing thought for distributors and manufacturers in the B2B … [Read more...] about Inventory Positions could be the top growth driver for industrial distribution in 2025
