Each week, Indian River Consulting Group (IRCG) tracks snapshots of year-over-year distributor revenue with its Pandemic Revenue Index (PRI).

Companies, educational institutions and municipalities are all now evaluating new procedures and products for their restroom facilities.

The world has changed. What we are experiencing is called a critical selling event, which means consumers’ habits are in flux. Their routines are now disrupted, and there is no set pattern in how they buy.

In a matter of months, the retail landscape has changed. People are shopping differently and will be for months to come. Line-ups, hand-wash stations, social distancing, signs and new rules in every store — these are all things affecting how people shop during this pandemic.

Many wholesalers who have showrooms still don’t get the luxury showroom market and continue to operate on the wholesale business model.

In just a few months, the COVID-19 pandemic, economic turmoil, and plunging oil and gas prices have cast a wide shadow over project development across the globe.

The average annual sales growth for the 12 months through May 2020 is 0.4 percent.

The National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) has released a revised 2020 Market Outlook.

Contractors are poised for near-term recovery, however.

The "NKBA Living Impacts Design" study forecasts primary kitchen and bath influences: connectivity, simplification, wellness and living in place.