MSC Industrial Direct Co. Inc. MSM

What this company does

MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. distributes metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products and services. Its product range includes cutting tools, abrasives, machining fluids, measuring instruments, machinery and accessories, tooling components, fasteners, flat stock, raw materials, machinery hand and power tools, safety and janitorial supplies, plumbing supplies, materials handling products, power transmission components and electrical supplies. It serves customers throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom, ranging from individual machine shops to Fortune 1000 manufacturing companies to government agencies such as the United States General Services Administration and the United States Department of Defense. It operates five customer fulfillment centers, nine regional inventory centers, 38 warehouses, of which 36 are in North America and two are in other foreign countries, and five manufacturing locations. It offers approximately 2.5 million active, saleable stock-keeping units through its e-commerce channels, inventory management solutions, catalogs, brochures, and customer care centers, customer fulfillment centers, regional inventory centers and warehouses. As of August 30, 2025, it employed 7,284 associates worldwide, of which 7,077 were full-time and 207 were part-time. It purchases substantially all of its products directly from more than 3,000 suppliers, with no single supplier accounting for more than 5% of its total purchases in fiscal year 2025. MSC has a history of more than 80 years in industrial product distribution.

Written from the business description in MSC INDUSTRIAL DIRECT CO INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 23 October 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.