The increase in real GDP reflected increases in personal consumption expenditures, nonresidential fixed investment, exports, and state and local government spending.
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The increase, up 15 of the last 16 months, followed a 0.5% July increase.
With increasing threats by digital giants and other channel disruptors, value-creating distributor-manufacturer partnerships are more important than ever. This article is the third of a three-part series on the benefits, critical value and keys to success of distributor advisory councils (DACs), based on interviews with 300 distributor principals.
Distributors that have successfully transformed over the past several years are the ones that have quickly pivoted to change management programs.
Latest Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) shows that all four broad categories of indicators used to construct the index made positive contributions in August, but three categories declined from July.
And housing starts are up compared to year-ago period and the previous month, according to the latest residential construction report from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
With increasing threats by digital giants and other channel disruptors, value-creating distributor-manufacturer partnerships are more important than ever. This is the second of a three-part series on the benefits, critical value and keys to success of distributor advisory councils (DACs), based on interviews with 300 distributor principals.Â
With increasing threats by digital giants and other channel disruptors, value-creating distributor-manufacturer partnerships are more important than ever. This article is the first of a three-part series on the benefits, critical value and keys to success of distributor advisory councils (DACs), based on interviews with 300 distributor principals.
According to the Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Report, industrial production increased just 0.4% during the month due to weather-related disruptions.
But new orders placed in July marked a 5.6% decrease from the previous month of June, according to the most recent U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report.
Wholesale trade shows improvement from same month in 2020 and was also up from the previous month of June, according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Distributors have taken the pandemic disruption in stride and used it to accelerate improvements across key areas of business: Sales & Marketing, Technology, Operations and Strategy & Leadership.
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U.S. Census Bureau’s final report on new orders for manufactured goods shows improvement for 14 of the last 15 months.
Year-over-year, the goods and services deficit decreased $3.2 billion, or 4.3%, from June.
The average annual sales growth for the 12 months through July was 17.2%, which was flat when compared to June, according to HARDI Distributors latest report.
The August Manufacturing PMI registered 59.9%, which was an increase of 0.4 percentage point from the July reading of 59.5%.
A surge in COVID-19 cases means the pandemic is far from over, but the latest round of economic reports is further proof that the recovery also shows no sign of slowing.
The U.S. Census Bureau has released advance indicators showing that the international trade deficit declined while wholesale inventories increased in July.
Current dollar GDP increased 13.2% at an annual rate, or $693.2 billion, in the second quarter to a level of $22.7 trillion.
