Company: DXPE
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001020710-25-000036
Chunk: 103

Company: DXP ENTERPRISES INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 103
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 as abrasives, tapes and adhesive products, coatings and lubricants, fasteners, hand tools, janitorial products, pneumatic tools, welding supplies and welding equipment.

Metal Working. Our metal working products include a broad range of cutting tools, abrasives, coolants, gauges, industrial tools and machine shop supplies.

Safety Products & Services. We sell a broad range of safety products including eye and face protection, first aid, hand protection, hazardous material handling, instrumentation and respiratory protection products. Additionally, we provide safety services including hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas protection and safety, specialized and standby fire protection, safety supervision, training, monitoring, equipment rental and consulting. Our safety services include safety supervision, medic services, safety audits, instrument repair and calibration, training, monitoring, equipment rental and consulting.

We acquire our products through numerous OEMs. We are authorized to distribute certain manufacturers' products only in specific geographic areas. All of our distribution authorizations are subject to cancellation by the manufacturer, some upon little or no notice. For the last three fiscal years, no customer accounted for 10% or more of our revenues. Over 90% of our business relates to sales of products. Service revenues are less than 10% of sales.

The Company has operations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and the U.A.E. Information regarding financial data by geographic areas is set forth in Note 19 - Revenue of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Acquisitions

A key component of our growth strategy includes acquiring businesses with complementary and desirable product lines, locations, or customers in order to maintain our leading position as the largest distributor of rotating equipment in North America. Since 2004, we have completed 58 acquisitions. We continue to evaluate opportunities to acquire businesses and companies that complement and enable further investment in our key priority areas. The risks associated with acquisitions are more fully discussed in “Item 1A. Risk Factors.” including the risk factory entitled “Risks associated with executing our acquisition strategy.”.

In 2024 we completed seven acquisitions for a combined total of $174.9 million. See Note 16 - Business Acquisitions for additional information.

Competition

Our business is highly competitive. In the Service Centers segment we compete with a variety of industrial supply distributors, some of which may have greater financial and other resources than we do. Some of our competitors are small enterprises selling to customers in a limited geographic area. We also compete with catalog distributors, large warehouse stores and, to a lesser extent,