If the quickest replies to this year’s annual ProSales 100 survey end up holding true for all of the top companies in LBM, 2017 will mark another year of double-digit growth for the group.
Revenues in 2017 for the first 40 respondents to the survey were 13.7% higher than those companies recorded 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, Last year, there were 91 gainers, two that reported no change, and seven firms that showed a decline.
The number of branches for this year’s first responders is up 8.5%, while the staff count is 9.8% higher.
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.
