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MRC, headquartered in Houston, is the largest global industrial distributor of pipe, valves and fittings to the energy industry, based on sales.
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Industrial supplies distributor Fastenal recorded a 36.1% increase in second-quarter profit Tuesday, despite slower economic growth and continued stress on the construction industry.
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It used to be that if you walked in the door of a Cleveland industrial pump distributor, the guy at the door would lug you a big catalog in a three ring binder and let you spend 15 minutes flipping through it to see which ones you thought you might like to buy.
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The infographic below, from industrial supplies-distributor Grainger, illustrates the same points a little more colorfully.
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During their monthly consulting sessions in the early 1970s, Peter Drucker and Mort Mandel, the then-CEO of electronics and auto-parts distributor Premier Industrial Corp.
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Another important building block of e-commerce infrastructure involves activities described by Web Services Description Language, or WSDL. Oriental Motor, a Japanese distributor of industrial motors, relies on one of these programs to update the inventories and prices of the many parts it offers online.
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Hill House Products, a distributor of small industrial motors with 10 employees, plans to consider renewing its health plan early, said Lianne Hill, the San Clemente, Calif.
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Penguin, for instance, is embarking on its library lending pilot with e-book distributor (and German industrial giant) 3M, some say because it may not want to do business with OverDrive.
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