The NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence announced its newest, groundbreaking research study, Driving Profitable Growth: A Distributor’s Playbook to Generate–Manage–Sustain Competitive Advantage, based on a two-year research consortium conducted by Texas A&M University’s Global Supply Chain Laboratory. Go to www.naw.org/growth or call 202.872.0885 to learn more and order copies. Quantity discounts of 15–50% apply when ordering two or more copies.

Growth is imperative. Wholesaler-distributors that are not growing are essentially dying in slow motion. Achieving top-line growth is becoming increasingly difficult given today’s economic challenges and customer demands. That is why the path to achieving and sustaining profitable growth needs a systematic and dynamic approach.

Driving Profitable Growth: A Distributor’s Playbook to Generate–Manage–Sustain Competitive Advantage is the first research study in wholesale distribution to examine both public and private firms and uncover a roadmap that addresses the three dimensions—generating, managing, and sustaining—of profitable growth. This study provides wholesaler-distributors with a growth playbook that is based on research and analytics instead of anecdotal information.

The research combines rigorous analytics that were collected from a decade of financial data with input from wholesaler-distributors from multiple lines of trade. It reflects the current environment and determines the roadmap to the future. This study speaks to the growth planning and execution issues all distributors face in leading and growing their organizations. There is no more important time than right now for distribution management teams to read this study.