Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: First Quarter 2022 Demand for manufactured goods remains strong despite a multitude of headwinds in the global economy. The challenge for manufacturing firms has been in meeting that demand, with sizable hurdles from supply chain disruptions, workforce…
Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Fourth Quarter 2021 Manufacturing activity remains robust, especially demand, with the U.S. and global economy continuing to rebound from the sizable declines in spring 2020. And yet, significant challenges remain, including supply chain disruptions, worker shortages and…
Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Third Quarter 2021 Manufacturing activity remains robust, especially demand, with the U.S. and global economy continuing to rebound from the sizable declines in spring 2020. Real GDP and manufacturing production now exceed pre-pandemic levels, which is encouraging.…
Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Second Quarter 2021 Manufacturing activity plummeted sharply as businesses grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic and the global recession in the spring of 2020, but the sector has bounced back sharply since then. Now manufacturing production is likely…
Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: First Quarter 2021 After plummeting sharply last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the global recession, manufacturing activity has rebounded sharply, with the sector being a bright spot in the economy in recent months. Manufacturing production…
Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Fourth Quarter 2020 The National Association of Manufacturers has released its fourth-quarter Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey, which shows a strong rebound since COVID-19 disrupted business in the spring. In the fourth-quarter survey, 74.2% of respondents said they were…
Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Third Quarter 2020 The National Association of Manufacturers has released its third-quarter Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey, which shows strong use of liquidity programs like the Paycheck Protection Program and Main Street Lending Program. Of the 82.7% of respondents…
Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Second Quarter 2020 Manufacturers have been severely challenged by demand and business disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting recession. Despite finding levels of sentiment rivaling the Great Recession, the National Association of Manufacturers’ survey…
Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: First Quarter 2020 Despite global economic concerns and trade uncertainties in 2019, the latest Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey from the National Association of Manufacturers illustrates the growing optimism in the sector in early 2020—and reinforces the stabilization reported…
Coronavirus Special Survey The National Association of Manufacturers conducted a survey of its member companies on the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak to manufacturers. The survey was in the field from Feb. 28 to March 9, 2020. The 558 respondents…
Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Fourth Quarter 2019 In 2018, manufacturers’ optimism reached an all-time high, according to the NAM’s Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey. After two consecutive quarters in 2019 showing a significant drop in manufacturers’ optimism amid uncertainties, the fourth quarter survey…
Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Third Quarter 2019 In 2018, manufacturers’ optimism reached an all-time high, according to the NAM’s Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey. For the second consecutive quarter in 2019, the survey shows a significant drop in manufacturers’ optimism amid uncertainties, softening…
Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Second Quarter 2019 2018 was a banner year for many manufacturers, with optimism reaching an all-time high as recorded in the Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey. In the field during the prospects of tariffs on Mexican goods and still…
NAM Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: First Quarter 2019 Empowered by tax reform and regulatory certainty, manufacturers are investing in our communities and in our people. Our latest Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey shows nine consecutive quarters of record optimism, with an average of…
NAM Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Fourth Quarter 2018 Manufacturers continued to report strong growth in activity, with the sector remaining one of the brightest spots in the economy. In the latest Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM),…
NAM Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Third Quarter 2018 Manufacturing activity remains robust—one of the brightest spots in the economy right now. In the latest Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), it is clear that manufacturing leaders in…
NAM Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Second Quarter 2018 In the latest Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), it is clear that businesses continue to experience highly elevated levels of activity as a result of pro-growth policies like…
NAM Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: First Quarter 2018 In the latest Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), U.S. manufacturers express levels of optimism about the future of their companies and their industry that have never been seen…
NAM Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Fourth Quarter 2017 In the latest Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey from the Natonal Association of Manufacturers (NAM), manufacturers’ optimism has risen to unprecedented heights, driven by their belief that the progress the White House and Congress have…
NAM Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Third Quarter 2017 In the latest Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the historically high levels of optimism that U.S. manufacturers expressed during the first two quarters of 2017 continued unabated through…
NAM Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Second Quarter 2017 The manufacturing sector has begun to turn a corner in recent months, trending in the right direction both in the United States and globally after struggling for much of the past two years.…
NAM Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: First Quarter 2017 Americans appear to be more optimistic about growth in recent months, and manufacturers are no exception. New results from the NAM Manufacturers’ Outlook survey show manufacturers’ optimismrose to a new all-time high in…
NAM Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Fourth Quarter 2016 There is a sense of optimism in the air as we end 2016, especially since the election. Americans appear to be cautiously upbeat about growth moving forward, and equity markets have reached all-time…
NAM Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Third Quarter 2016 Manufacturing sentiment appears to have stabilized after several quarters of declining assessments about the economic outlook, and the latest data appear to mostly back that assertion up, but with some caveats. Indeed, economic…
NAM Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: Second Quarter 2016 Manufacturing sentiment appears to have stabilized after several quarters of declining assessments about the economic outlook, and the latest data appear to mostly back that assertion up, but with some caveats. Indeed, economic…
NAM Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey: First Quarter 2016 Sluggish growth abroad, a stronger U.S. dollar, the West Coast ports slowdown, still-cautious consumers and sharply lower energy prices have combined to provide a significant headwind for many manufacturers. However, manufacturing demand and…
