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SMALL PARTS, BIG CONSEQUENCES 🔩 Supply Chain Risk Management Guide for For Fastener Distributors, Procurement Buyers, and Business Owners Who Can't Afford to Get This Wrong (Part 5 of series) Part 5: Build It Before It Breaks: The Fastener Industry's Step-by-Step Guide to Supply Chain Resilience linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… Part 4: linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… Part 3: linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… Part 2: linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… Part 1: linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… #Fasteners #FastenerNews #FastenerIndustry #RiskManagement #SupplyChain #SmallParts

SMALL PARTS, BIG CONSEQUENCES A Supply Chain Risk Management Guide for For Fastener Distributors, Procurement Buyers, and Business Owners Who Can't Afford to Get This Wrong (Part 4 of series) It Was All Foreseeable: Real Supply Chain Failures the Fastener Industry Can't Afford to Forget Part 4: linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… Part 3: linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… Part 2: linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… Part 1: linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… #Fasteners #FastenerNews #FastenerIndustry #RiskManagement #SupplyChain #SmallParts

SMALL PARTS, BIG CONSEQUENCES A Supply Chain Risk Management Guide for For Fastener Distributors, Procurement Buyers, and Business Owners It Was All Foreseeable: Real Supply Chain Failures the Fastener Industry Can't Afford to Forget (Part 4 of series) linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… Part 3: linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… Part 2: linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… Part 1: linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… #Fasteners #FastenerNews #FastenerIndustry #RiskManagement #SupplyChain #SmallParts

2026 Body Guard by Fastenal racing schedule...see you at a track this year! #BodyGuardbyFastenal #RFKracing

Congratulations @allisongrealis! Celebrating your success this Women History Month! 👏👏👏 @WomeninMFG #fastenernews #fasteners #manufacturing

SMALL PARTS, BIG CONSEQUENCES A Supply Chain Risk Management Guide for the Fastener Industry For Fastener Distributors, Procurement Buyers, and Business Owners Who Can't Afford to Get This Wrong (Part 4 of series) Risk assessments are comfortable things. They live in spreadsheets, populate heat maps, and get presented in boardrooms where everyone nods, agrees the exposure is real, and then returns to optimizing for lowest unit cost. Read article: linkedin.com/posts/fastener… Previous articles in series: Part 3 link: linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… Part 2 link: linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… Part 1 link: linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… #Fasteners #FastenerNews #FastenerIndustry #RiskManagement #SupplyChain #SmallParts

SMALL PARTS, BIG CONSEQUENCES A Supply Chain Risk Management Guide for the Fastener Industry For Fastener Distributors, Procurement Buyers, and Business Owners Who Can't Afford to Get This Wrong (Part 3 of series) linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… #fastenernews #fasteners #supplychain #smallparts #SCR

No lawsuits required: U.S. Customs is working on a system to refund tariffs. U.S. customs officials say they're working on a system to deliver tariff refunds, and they hope it'll be up and running within 45 days. npr.org/2026/03/06/nx-… #fastenernews #fasteners #tariffs #refund #NPR

SMALL PARTS, BIG CONSEQUENCES A Supply Chain Risk Management Guide for the Fastener Industry | Part 2 linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… #fastenernews #fasteners #smallparts #supplychain #RiskManagement

Milton Friedman, points out the remarkable degree of cooperation between people from many different countries, who’ve never even met, to make what appears to be a very simple product – a pencil. The free market encourages cooperation between strangers. And the end result is that we all benefit – in this case, by having pencils to use. Take a listen…would love to hear your thoughts on this simple analogy. youtu.be/67tHtpac5ws #fastenernews #fasteners #cooperation #distribution #supplychain #manufacturing

SMALL PARTS, BIG CONSEQUENCES Supply Chain Risk Management Guide for the Fastener Industry @CrisAYoung For Fastener Distributors, Procurement Buyers, and Business Owners Who Can't Afford to Get This Wrong (Part 1 of 6 part series) linkedin.com/pulse/small-pa… #fastenernews #fasteners #smallparts #supplychain #tariffs #distribution #usmfg

I think this is really a good learning point to focus on not just how we talk about women in sports but in industry. Women aren’t less than and our achievements shouldn’t be overshadowed. - Hillary Knight | Captain of Team USA Women’s Hockey 🏒 🥇 #fastenernews #womeninmfg #fastenerwomen #fastenerindustry

7 key things to know about Trump's tariffs after the Supreme Court decision The Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Trump overstepped his authority when he ordered tariffs on imports from nearly every country in the world, using a 1970s "emergency" statute. npr.org/2026/02/20/nx-… #fastenernews #fasteners #tariffs #taco #supplychain #manufacturing #distribution

Let it be said to our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we didn't turn our back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations. - President @BarackObama ❤️

IN THE NEWS: @FastenalCompany & Edmonton @EdmontonOilers Enter Multi-Year Agreement The agreement makes Fastenal the preferred MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations) supply partner of Rogers Place, reflecting Fastenal's growing partnership with the NHL and its Clubs. Read more: investor.fastenal.com/news-releases/… #fastenernews #fasteners #NHL $FAST #supplychain #Canada #distribution

IN THE NEWS: Fastenal Names New Chief Financial Officer and Senior Executive Vice President @FastenalCompany Read full release: investor.fastenal.com/news-releases/… #fastenernews #fasteners #leadership #growth #modernization $FAST #fastenerindustry

IN THE NEWS: Fastenal Company Reports 2025 Second Quarter WINONA, Minn., July 14, 2025 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Fastenal Company (Nasdaq:FAST) a leader in the wholesale distribution of industrial and construction supplies, today announced its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2025. With industrial production still sluggish in the second quarter of 2025, the performance of our fastener product line continued to lag our non-fastener product lines. The fastener category experienced improved growth in the second quarter of 2025, as compared to the second quarter of 2024. This was driven by easier comparisons, increased contribution from large customer signings, better product availability in our distribution centers, and pricing actions implemented in the second quarter of 2025. Read full report: s23.q4cdn.com/591718779/file… #fastenernews #fasteners #distribution #industrial #manufacturing #digital

Industrial bellwether Fastenal $FAST reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings along with solid sales growth. It’s a sign that the U.S. industrial economy is doing better. Read more: barrons.com/articles/indus… #fastenernews #fasteners #digital #industrial #supplychain #distribution #FAST #indsupply

IN THE NEWS: The European Union has warned that its trade with the United States could be effectively wiped out if Washington makes good on its threat to slap a 30% tariff on goods imported from the bloc. A tariff of “30%, or anything above 30%… has more or less the same effect. So, practically it prohibits the trade,” Maroš Šefčovič, the EU’s trade commissioner, said as he arrived ahead of an EU ministerial meeting in Brussels on Monday. Read more: lnkd.in/e63R2Pag #fastenernews #fasteners #EU #tariffs #supplychain #manufacturing #trade