Posted by Traveling Salesman at 2/28/2013 12:21 PM
Mergers and acquisitions. To get right to the point, by the end of the year our industrial landscape is going to look markedly different than it did on January 1. Already, several major companies have been sold and we are still in February. Just this week, Barnes Distribution was sold to MSC which I think is a very significant acquisition. So far, most of the acquisitions seem to have been on the distributor side. Not as many on the supplier side but one would have to think those will happen too.
I’m not an economist or financial expert. But I wonder, why does there (…)
