Neil A. Schrimsher – Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc.

Sales trends by month

“Sure. So, Ryan, our sales per day trends for the overall fourth quarter improved 1.1% from the third quarter. May was slightly below April. We finished up in June. July was positive year-over-year probably mid-upper single digits. So, as expected, down sequentially from June with seasonality, and month-to-date August, we started well over these initial seven to eight days.

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Overall good activity in the quarter

“All right. So, similar, 18 were up in the past quarter, positives around oil and gas that we’ve talked about year-over-year and sequentially in the U.S. Other related industries, infrastructure, aggregates, cement positives; seeing positives in machinery OEMs, transportation equipment and paper and food, those are probably the ones in the 18 and I think the others start to narrow a little bit more too. So, I think all-in-all, we saw good activity in the quarter and it’s a good base as we move into fiscal 2018.”