NOW Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the distribution of energy products for industrial applications. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas and currently employs 1,200 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2014-05-20. The firm supplies energy and industrial products and packaged, engineered process and production equipment. The company operates under the DistributionNOW and DNOW brands. Its segments include the United States, Canada and International. The firm's global product offering includes consumable maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) supplies, pipe, manual and automated valves, fittings, flanges, gaskets, fasteners, electrical, instrumentation, artificial lift, pumping solutions, and modular process, production, measurement and control equipment. The company also offers procurement, warehouse and inventory management solutions as part of its supply chain and materials management offering. Its solutions include outsourcing portions or entire functions of its customers procurement, warehouse and inventory management, logistics, point of issue technology, project management, business process and performance metrics reporting.