Industry Stats

Note: The printed version of this article contained an error in the text. This version has been revised to show the correct electrical distributor nationwide sales growth forecast for 2017 of 3.1%.

LED A-line lamp shipments posted a 21.2% decrease in the second quarter of 2016 compared to the first quarter, but still continue year-over-year growth, growing 40.6 %. Halogen A-line lamps shipments showed virtually no year-over-year growth at...

Not much movement in last month’s Electrical Price Index, with a 0.1% increase to 145.1 over July 2016 and a 0.2% decline in the year-over-year data. Several categories showed a change of more than one percent, including Power Wire & Cable (+1...

Part of the August decline in single-family starts was weather-related, particularly due to flooding issues in Louisiana.

July was a quiet month for the Electrical Price Index (EPI), with the overall index sliding 0.1% and the Air Conditioners product category (-1.2%) showing the only month-to-month change of more than 1%. The year-over-year data showed a bit more...

Electrical contractors sales potential was tracking a bit better in 2Q 2016, according to data recently compiled by Electrical Marketing’s editors and mapped out in the new data visualization tool that we recently developed below. Just click on...