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It’s been another quiet month in Electrical Marketing’s Electrical Price Index (EPI), with no change since April and a -0.4% drop year-over-year from April 2014. The only categories registering a change of over 1% in last month’s EPI were Pow...
Electrical Marketing's Electrical Price Index, a proprietary data series provided monthly to EM subscribers, is seldom a volatile thing. Most of the time it's downright boring, because pricing changes of any size are rare in this market...
In EM’s EPI, it’s big news when a category jumps over a point, and the 12.4% April increase in the ballast category is one of the largest increases we have seen. Global Insights’ Michael Montgomery, who provides the EPI each month for EM, said ...
EM’s Electrical Price Index (EPI) saw a slight dip in March, primarily due to drops in electrical test instruments (-1.6%) and air conditioners (-2.7%). Residential lighting equipment (+1.1%) and lamps (+2%) were the two biggest gainers. Buildi...
EM’s Electrical Price Index (EPI) was up 0.3% in February to 146.5, but was down -0.7% from Feb. 2014. The only categories registering an increase of more than 1% were telephone supplies (+3.5%) and air conditioners (+1.1%). Some of the year-o...
Electrical Marketing’s Electrical Price Index started off 2015 with some rather larger decreases, with Power Wire & Cable sagging -3.2% and Telephone products down -7%. Wiring Devices & Connectors were the only product category with an increase...
Click to enlargeEM’s Electrical Price Index (EPI) was down a half point in December and ended the year up 0.3% over Dec. 2014. Not surprisingly, Building Wire & Cable led all categories with a -2.3% decline from November and a -5.4% decline fro...
Building Wire & Cable (-1.5%) and Power Cable (-1.3%) led all other electrical product categories in Electrical Marketing’s Electrical Price Index (EPI) to a monthly decline in November of -0.3%, a mark that’s up +0.6% over Nov. 2013. Building ...
In another month of slow growth, EM’s Electrical Price Index (EPI) slid 0.1% from September, a mark that’s up 1.1% from Oct. 2013. With the exception of power wire and cable (+2.1%) and air conditioners (-2%) all product categories showed less ...
While none of the individual product categories showed a change of one percent or more, year-over-year (YOY) EM’s Electrical Price Index (EPI) was up 1.2%. The product categories showing the most increase over Sept. 2013 were lamps (+4.2%)...
