Every year Industrial Distribution magazine does a survey of the largest industrial distributors in the United States, and then ranks them by total sales.  Their June 2007 issue ranked the top 50.  For the year 2006, Machinery Systems, with two locations, earned the 49^th spot with $103 million in sales and 63 employees.

To put our size in perspective, Wolseley the largest industrial distributor in the United States, made 53 acquisitions in 2006, 31 in North America alone.  They reported 2006 sales of $25.3 billion with 5,000 locations and 7,820 employees.

Other than top 50 bragging rights, what does this mean?  Not much, but we thought you would be interested.

Here is the link to the Big 50 story: http://www.inddist.com/article/CA6446084.html