Stock Symbol: MSM

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Business Description
MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. is a direct marketer of a broad range of industrial products to industrial customers throughout the United States. The Company distributes a full line of industrial products intended to satisfy its customers' maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) supplies requirements. MSC offers over 500,000 stock-keeping units (SKUs), representing a range of MRO through its catalogs, weekly, monthly and quarterly specialty and promotional catalogs, newspapers and brochures and the Internet, including its website MSCDirect.com, and services its customers from approximately 90 branch offices and four distribution centers.

Financial Information
For the fiscal year ended 8/28/04, sales rose 13% to $955.3M. Net income rose 56% to $81.2 million. Revenues reflect increased sales to existing customers and a greater number of active customers. Net income also reflects improved margins and an increased absorption of overhead.