
HOUSTON — Broad-line industrial distributor Hisco — No. 34 on Industrial Distribution's 2019 Big 50 List — announced that it recently won a customer success award from Insite Software, a provider of B2B digital commerce solutions for manufacturers and distributors. The Outstanding Customer Results award for search engine excellence was presented to Hisco’s Gary Niemand, senior vice president of IT and procurement, Oct. 16 at the Engage user conference in Minneapolis.
Specifically, fiscal year-to-date, page-one keywords are up an average of 50 percent on hisco.com, and 93 percent on all-spec.com, compared to the previous year.
Employee-owned Hisco's international branch network includes 35 stocking locations in three countries: the US, HiscoMex in Mexico and HiscoCan in Canada. Hisco’s Precision Converting facilities provide value-added fabrication, and its Adhesive Materials Group provides an array of custom repackaging. Hisco also offers vendor-managed inventory programs and specialized warehousing for chemical management, logistics services and cold storage. Its supplier base includes manufacturing giants Henkel, Alpha and 3M, to name a few.
On Dec. 16, it was announced that Insite Software will be acquired by digital platform provider Episerver.