Electrical Marketing maintains a comprehensive suite of reports on economic indicators and sales potentials for all major markets served by the electrical industry.
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Electrical contractors buy roughly 50% of all products sold through electrical distributors, and each electrical contractor employee accounts for roughly $65,151 in purchasing power.
While EM’s monthly Electrical Price Index (EPI) only increased +0.1%, its +3% increase year-over-year is a better reflection of market pricing’s longer term trend. Much of this annual change can be linked to the YOY increases in several core...
Construction spending during June 2018 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1,317.2 billion, -1.1% below the revised May estimate of $1,332.2 billion. The June figure from the U.S. Census Bureau is +6.1% above the June 2017...
While updating Electrical Marketing's 2Q 2018 Electrical Sales Potential estimates for local market areas, EM’s editors found some new fast-growing metros in the mix, as well as plenty of perennial all stars. It wasn’t surprising to...
Boosting activity in June was a sharp 57% advance for nonresidential building, which benefited from the start of two massive manufacturing plant projects and two massive office building projects.
To no one’s surprise, the increases in the Electrical Price Index’s Building Wire & Cable (+2.3%) and Power Wire & Cable (+0.8%) categories were driven by June’s copper market, volatility which drove prices over $3 per pound for most of the month...
Privately-owned housing starts in June were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,173,000, -12.3% below the revised May estimate of 1,337,000 and -4.2% below the June 2017 rate of 1,225,000. Single-family housing starts in June were at a rate...
With the economy chugging along there's no lack of major construction projects in planning or construction around the United States. Here's our collection of the latest news on marquee jobs in a data table sortable by state, size or any other...
