U.S. industrial production and heavy manufacturing sales remain anemic, according to a recent Baird survey of more than 500 distributors in various channels.
Amazon.com, with total company first quarter 2017 sales up 23 percent to $35.7 billion, is a disrupter wherever it goes. Just ask Sears, Macy’s, Borders Books, Tower Records and Whole Foods. But its present and future impact on the safety supply chain is really part of a larger story.
The new facility, which includes a distribution center and administrative office space, will expand and further streamline the company’s hardgoods supply chain to Airgas customers and branch locations when it is fully operational in early December 2014.
