The latest figures from the Plumbing & Heating Merchant Index (PHMI) report, produced by MRA Research, show adjusted like-for-like value sales for May 2026 through specialist plumbing and heating merchants were up +1.3% compared to May 2025. Like-for-like volume sales were down -8.0%, while prices increased +10.1% year-on-year. With one less …
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The latest Plumbing & Heating Merchant Index (PHMI) report, published by MRA research in March, shows like-for-like Q4 2025 value sales, adjusted to remove the impact of trading days, were +0.7% higher than the same period in 2024. Like-for-like volume sales decreased by -3.3%. With no difference in trading days, …
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The latest Plumbing & Heating Merchant Index (PHMI) report, published in June, shows Q1 2024 total value sales through specialist Plumbing & Heating merchants were down -3.6% compared to the same quarter in 2023; Volumes sales fell -6.4% and prices crept up +3.0%. With one less trading day this year, …
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The latest Plumbing & Heating Merchant Index (PHMI) report showed total value sales for January through specialist plumbing and heating merchants were up +1.5% in 2024 compared to the same month in 2023. But volumes decreased -3.7% as prices increased +5.4%. Taking trading day differences into account, like-for-like sales for …
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The Plumbing & Heating Merchant Index (PHMI) report showed that Q4 2023 total value sales through specialist Plumbing & Heating merchants were flat (+0.4%), compared with Q4 2022, with falling volumes (-5.0%) and higher prices (+5.7%). With one more trading day in Q4 2023, like-for-like sales were -1.3% down. It …
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Plumbing & Heating Merchant Index report show total value sales for August 2023 through specialist plumbing and heating merchants were up +2.8% higher than July, volume sales edged up +0.8% with prices up +1.9%. Total value sales over the last three months, June to August 2023, were +6.2% higher than …
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The latest figures for February from the Plumbing & Heating Merchant Index (PHMI) report show monthly total value sales through specialist plumbing and heating merchants were 3.2% higher than the same month in 2021. However, this growth has come entirely from +8.3% higher prices rather than volume sales which slipped …
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