During the month, MDM reported on 43 mergers and acquisitions among distributors and manufacturers, the second most in any month this year.

Mergers and acquisitions among industrial distributors and manufacturers rebounded in December after slowing down in the latter half of November.

If you bet the “over” on merger-and-acquisition activity among industrial distributors and manufacturers for October, then you would have cashed in. The pace of relevant M&A activity increased yet again during the month, this time to 43 reported deals — the second most of any month so far in 2023. Only January (50 deals) had more, while April and August fall to third most with 40 deals each. In October, the sequential pace of M&A — which, as we reported before, has resembled a rollercoaster-like path — grew by 18 deals compared with September.

The monthly pace of deals rose during the preparation of a new M&A report, which revealed that 3Q M&A activity has slowed among most companies. According to data compiled by Houlihan Lokey, domestic M&A activity across all industries was down again in 3Q 2023, continuing a sequential downward trend that started during the last three months of 2021.

As for October itself, multiple companies announced more than one merger or acquisition. Atlas Copco added distributors in New Hampshire and Slovakia, while Foundation Building Materials added three new locations via acquisitions. Imperial Dade announced deals to acquire companies in Ohio and Quebec, while Ingersoll Rand and Timken each made a pair of additions as well. Not to be outdone, Sonepar announced agreements to acquire companies in Florida, Illinois and Michigan.

Read about all the deals from October by clicking the links below. Here’s our September roundup.

Don’t forget: MDM Premium members can download and read the 3Q 2023 M&A Report here.

October M&A:

These are the M&A announcements — primarily involving distributors, but also manufacturers that sell through the channel — relevant to the industrial, commercial and building supply markets MDM covers that we published during October 2023 (click the headline for more details):

Premium members can download the 3Q 2023 M&A Report here. All other Premium and monthly reports are available to download here.

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Mark Powell

Mark Powell

Mark Powell is MDM’s Associate Editor. He is a former mainstream news reporter and editor and has worked in the online, print, radio and TV news industries. Mark earned a bachelor’s degree from San Jose State University and a master’s degree from California State University, Bakersfield. He has lived and worked in various cities across California, Colorado and Kansas and currently lives in Shafter, California.

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