McMaster-Carr Supply Company is a private American supplier of hardware, tools, raw materials, industrial materials, and maintenance equipment. They function as a business-to-business company.[2] The company was founded in 1901 and is based in Elmhurst, Illinois, with distribution centers in Robbinsville, New Jersey; Santa Fe Springs, California; Douglasville, Georgia and Aurora, Ohio.[3][4] A new distribution center and regional headquarters began construction in May 2024 in Fort Worth, Texas, with completion expected in 2027.[5]
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Industrial supply |
| Founded | 1901 |
| Headquarters | Elmhurst, Illinois |
Number of employees | 3,001[1] |
| Website | mcmaster.com |
History
editThe company was founded in 1901 at 160 East Lake street in Chicago as the McMaster-Davis Supply Company.[6][7] Starting with $50,000 in investor capital, its founders were T.J. McMaster, a former stationary engineer, and F.C. Davis, who had been a chief engineer in the U.S. Navy.[6][8] In 1904, an attorney with a background in mechanical engineering named Walter S. Carr purchased the company.[9] As early as 1908, the name of the company had been changed from McMaster-Davis to McMaster-Carr.[10][11]
Harry and James Channon, the sons of Henry Channon the founder of the H. Channon company, a large Chicago distributor of maritime and steam engine supplies, later purchased the company.[12]
Catalog
editIn 1908 the company printed and copyrighted its first catalog, at 506 pages in length.[13][11] It releases its current catalog annually.[14] The distinctive yellow print edition of the catalog is limited in distribution, sent primarily to established customers.[15]
Website
editMcMaster-Carr's website ranked third among e-commerce sites in a 2002 study performed at Stanford University about trust and credibility, just behind Amazon and Barnes & Noble.[16] The site intersperses design tips and explanations of material properties within product offerings.
Mobile phone app
editThe McMaster app was released in May 2013 for the iPad[17] and March 2014 for Android devices.
Awards
editIn 2015 McMaster-Carr was recognized by customers, in a survey by B2B business reviewer VendOp, as one of the top B2B vendors in the United States in multiple categories.[18]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "McMaster-Carr's Competitors, Revenue, Number of Employees, Funding, Acquisitions". www.owler.com.
- ^ Hanson, Dana (2023-04-03). "20 Things You Didn't Know About McMaster-Carr". Money Inc. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
- ^ "Company Overview of McMaster-Carr Supply Company". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ^ "McMaster-Carr – Contact Us". Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ^ Express, Dallas (2024-04-13). "Construction of McMaster-Carr distribution center in Fort Worth set to begin in May". Dallas Express. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
- ^ a b The Railway Age. Vol. 32. Wilson Company. 1901. p. 617.
- ^ Directory of Combination Export Managers. Washington, D.C.: USAID Office of Small Businesses. 1962. p. 93.
- ^ "The International Steam Engineer". 1903.
- ^ "The National Engineer". 1904.
- ^ "Directory of Stationary Engineers of the States of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin: Containing a List of Steam Plants, with Capacity and Name of Engineer in Charge; an Alphabetical List of Engineers in Chicago; Classified Telephone Directory of Manufacturers and Supply Houses; List of Associations, and Useful Information for the Engineer ..." Stationary Engineers Directory Company. March 3, 1908 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "The Engineer: With which is Incorporated Steam Engineering". March 3, 1908 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Channon to Pay $450,000 to Two Sons he 'Fired'". The Chicago Daily Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. July 11, 1919. p. 17.
- ^ "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [A] Group 1. Books. New Series". March 3, 1908 – via Google Books.
- ^ LaPlace, Jules (August 28, 2013). "McMaster-Carr Catalog". AIGA. Archived from the original on 2018-06-07. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ^ Sung, John (March 18, 2015). "Techronomicon: The McMaster-Carr Catalog". Highway1. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ^ Fogg, B. J.; Soohoo, Cathy; Danielson, David; Marable, Leslie; Stanford, Julianne; Tauber, Ellen R. (November 11, 2002). "How Do People Evaluate a Web Site's Credibility?" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010.
- ^ Edman, Lenore (June 18, 2013). "McMaster-Carr iPad App". Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ^ "Unveiled: VendOp's Top 50 B2B Vendors List". www.vendop.com.