Last quarter’s NKBA/John Burns Kitchen & Bath Market Index (KBMI) results were clearly a hard act to follow, given that several all-time index records were broken. But the just-released 2021 Q2 report did just that, far surpassing last quarter’s all-time record. Members expect the torrid pace of business to moderate but remain strong. Even more positive, sales projections have been revised upward, and are now expected to exceed last year by 14.5%. Manufacturing is the strongest of the four K&B segments, based on index scores.
The overall score — based on member feedback across the four major industry sectors of Design, Building/Construction, Sales and Manufacturing — came in at 82.3 on a scale of zero to 100, comfortably ahead of last quarter’s 79.8. For perspective, it stood at 44.2 a year ago.
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