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Home » U.S. MARKET ANALYSIS: MRO Products 2003

U.S. MARKET ANALYSIS: MRO Products 2003

August 25, 2003
Confirming the obvious for many distributors, the consumption of MRO products shrank significantly in the U.S. over the past year, according to the annual MDM/IMI MRO Total Market Analysis. The U.S. market for the 128 MRO industrial products groups is $383.9 billion in 2003, down 8.2% from last year's study.


Estimates are based on data compiled by Industrial Market Information, Minneapolis, MN, and analyzed by MDM. See p. 12 for a listing of the 128 products used in this survey.


This year, for the first time, in addition to gauging the total MRO market, two aggregate subgroups have been measured. Manufacturing & Utilities sectors consumed $200.2 billion in MRO products across these 128 product groups, while Construction & Mining consumed $80.6 billion in these MRO products. ...

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Confirming the obvious for many distributors, the consumption of MRO products shrank significantly in the U.S. over the past year, according to the annual MDM/IMI MRO Total Market Analysis. The U.S. market for the 128 MRO industrial products groups is $383.9 billion in 2003, down 8.2% from last year's study.


Estimates are based on data compiled by Industrial Market Information, Minneapolis, MN, and analyzed by MDM. See p. 12 for a listing of the 128 products used in this survey.


This year, for the first time, in addition to gauging the total MRO market, two aggregate subgroups have been measured. Manufacturing & Utilities sectors consumed $200.2 billion in MRO products across these 128 product groups, while Construction & Mining consumed $80.6 billion in these MRO products. ...







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