Returns so far to this year’s annual ProSales 100 survey suggest 2017 will surpass 2016 for year-over-year growth.
The first 48 companies that have responded to the survey or published their numbers recorded a 16.7% increase in aggregate revenues in 2017 from the year before. The biggest jump was a 105% increase, while one company went down, slipping 3%. In contrast, the 100 companies on last year’s ProSales 100 averaged a 15.6% rise in revenue from 2015 to 2016, An earlier interim report had this year’s group trailing last year’s list in terms of overall growth, but in recent days we’ve had reports from top 10 companies like BMC, Beacon Roofing Supply, and Foundation Building Materials.
The total number of branches increased 9.4% among the 45 of those firms that have given those results, while the staff count grew 13.9%.
How do you compare? You are invited to take part and show how you have progressed over the past 12 months.
Take our online survey. It should require no more than 15 minutes to complete. Please return the survey by Thursday, March 29. Results will be published in ProSales’ May edition, just like last year.
As always, we’ll link your name to only a few of the initial questions that you answer. Responses to all other questions will be reported in the aggregate and won’t be individually identifiable.
Here’s how to fill out the survey:
- Please note we’ll be asking questions about your revenues, company size, and services offered. Want to see in advance what we’ll ask? Click here to download a PDF of the questions.
- Once you’re ready, go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PS100_2018
- Start entering information.
- Once you reach the end and you click the “done” button, your information will be considered complete. We then will send you an email within a couple of days confirming the info arrived correctly.
- If you want a copy of what you sent us, write to editor-in-chief Craig Webb at cwebb@hanleywood.com.
If you need to leave the survey temporarily before completing it, and you began by clicking on the link above, the system will save everything up to the last page you finished. To return, use your same web browser and same computer to go back to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PS100_2018. Note: This won’t work if you clear your brower’s cache in the meantime, because that will remove the web cookie that identifies you to our survey software.
If you started the survey based on an email link that we sent you, go back to that email message and click on the link. Unlike the web address above, you then can complete the survey using a different computer or from a different location.
Questions? Contact ProSales editor-in-chief Craig Webb at cwebb@hanleywood.com or 202.736.3307.
Act now! The deadline for entries is Thursday, March 29.
