The streak goes on: but after 107 months of cabinet growth, how much longer will it last?(STATE OF THE INDUSTRY)(Cover story)

From: Wood & Wood Products | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

It's official: 107 months of cabinet sales growth as of February 2005--and still going strong.

Tracked by the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Assn. as part of its monthly Trends of Business Survey, the just-shy-of-nine-years streak, charted below, eclipses the previous 61-month record that ran from November 1982 to November 1987, as well as the more recent 42-month sales growth streak that ran from November 1991 to May 1995.

Sales growth is based on a comparison of a given month in one year to the same month in the year prior. On average, 83 companies participate regularly ...

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