Herm Isenstein, president, DISC Corp., Orange, Conn., has updated his forecasts for 2016-2017 on his new Flash Update, a monthly forecasting service launched earlier this year. “We expect industry sales in 2017 to advance 5.7%, which is the best industry sales performance in five years,” he says. “This year is still expected to be negative, down just 0.9% from the 2015 level. There is a boost next year from industry prices gaining 2% after running negative in the past two years.”
For additional monthly analysis in the DISC Flash Update of the market drivers shaping the electrical industry contact Herm at [email protected] or 203-799-3673.
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Doug Chandler, Senior Staff Writer
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Doug Chandler began writing about the electrical industry in 1992, and still finds there's never a shortage of stories to be told. So he spends his days finding them and telling them. Educationally, he's a Jayhawk with an English degree. Outside of work, he can often be found banging drums or harvesting tomatoes.