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By 2020, retailers expect 20 percent of all non-food sales to be facilitated through some form of eCommerce. By 2016, half of all consumers’ purchases will incorporate some online or mobile component: comparison shopping, ordering, customizing and paying. And today, 65...
After a pretty solid 2011 among the major industrial gas companies, the expectation seems to be for continued steady growth in the US (consistent with results of the 4Q11 Baird/CryoGas Survey as summarized on the previous page), ongoing growth and...
Prior to World War II, gases and supplies were sold directly from manufacturers to end-users. Following the war, however, large gas manufacturers tried to alleviate the cost and burden of selling directly to smaller customers, and wanted...
Robert W. Baird and Company (www.rwbaird.com) surveys over 40,000 US companies in the distribution of industrial products each quarter and receives responses from over 600 independent distributors and manufacturers with combined annual revenue of approximately $80 billion....
It is perhaps your greatest untapped market segment today. For decades, welding distributors have made a living serving industrial endusers’ hard goods and consumables needs, providing gases, wire, welders, and all manner of accessories. For many distributors, their entire business has...
Q1 2011 Results Robert W. Baird and Company (www.rw baird.com) conducts a quarterly survey of over 40,000 US companies in the distribution of industrial products (All Distributors). In 2010, Baird teamed with CryoGas International (www.cryogas.com) to include a large sample...
R.W. Baird & Co. (www.rwbaird.com) has been surveying industrial distributors (including some gas distributors) for more than three years. In 2010 Baird and CryoGas International partnered to provide a survey of quarterly results focused on US packaged gas...
Robert W. Baird & Co (www.rwbarid.com) provides research coverage on 20 industrial distributors and service companies, including the US publicly-traded gas companies Airgas (ARG), Air Products (APD), and Praxair (PX). Baird produces a quarterly industrial distribution survey and recently partnered with CryoGas International to...
I had the pleasure of speaking at the GAWDA Eastern Zone regional meeting in October of 2008 at the Hampden Country Club in Hampden, Massachusetts. At this meeting I shared my thoughts on some of the potential impacts the current...
