MRO Business Intelligence
By Susan Avery -- Purchasing, 3/13/2008
183,000MRO products in Grainger's 2008 catalog
Source: Grainger
WHAT IT MEANS: The industrial distributor added 44,000 new SKUs (stock keeping units) to its line in such categories as power transmission, raw materials and fleet maintenance.
$500 millionBMW's annual MRO buy, including capital spend
Source: BMW Manufacturing Co.
WHAT IT MEANS: Maintenance, repair and operations is an important spend category to the automaker's only plant in the U.S.
11.3%Increase in U.S. manufacturers' sales of standard industrial motors
Source: Power Transmission Distributors Association
WHAT IT MEANS: Demand for industrial motors continues strong despite a slower economy.
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