Tag Archives: Plumbing & Heating Merchant Index

PHMI: 2024 brings “more to be cheerful about” in the sector

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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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PHMI Q4 highlights: Value sales “virtually flat” year on year and volume down 5%

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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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PHMI report indicates that volume sales and prices increased

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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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Higher prices boost plumbing and heating merchant sales

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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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