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June 27, 2012
StatShot: Across-the-Board Sales Gains Tempered by Dire Individual Reports

CHICAGO — Sales increases attributed in part to higher prices

CHICAGO – Dry cleaning sales for May grew in all four regions, the fourth month there have been across-the-board gains this year, according to the latest AmericanDrycleaner.com StatShot survey. Nationwide, sales increased 3.7%, while all regions also reported upticks in prices from May 2011.

Drycleaners in the West posted 8.3% growth when comparing May 2012 to May 2011. About 81% of respondents there reported a rise in sales, while the remainder saw their sales remain unchanged.

“May last year was very strong for us. Sales have been more consistent than last year. We are still looking at a 5-7% increase for the year,” says an operator from the West. Another reported adding 20% in tuxedo cleaning accounts.

The other regions saw smaller but still significant sales increases in May from one year ago: South, up 3.2%; Midwest, up 2.5%; and Northeast, up 2.1%.

“We’ve had our best five-month start ever,” raves a Midwest drycleaner.

But for every good report, there were as many or more bad.

July 1, 2011
StatShot: All Regions Post Gains for First Time This Year

CHICAGO – Sales for May grew in all four regions, the first time there have been across-the-board gains this year, according to the latest AmericanDrycleaner.com StatShot survey. Nationwide, sales increased 3.0%, while all regions also reported upticks in prices from May 2010.

Drycleaners in the Northeast posted tremendous 10.2% growth when comparing May 2011 to May 2010. About 86% of respondents there reported a rise in sales, while equal shares of 7% saw their sales dip or remain unchanged.

May 24, 2011
StatShot: Sales Gain Steam in Northeast, South

April 27, 2011
StatShot: South Shows Steady Sales Growth, Nation Flat

CHICAGO — Sales grew 3.3% in the South last month from March 2010 figures, this month’s StatShot survey says, and expanded 3.7% during the first quarter of 2011.

“Things seem to be improving,” one Southern operator says. “We are cautiously optimistic. March was a very pleasant surprise.” “The market is going up slowly,” says another. “But up!”

March 23, 2011
StatShot: Snow Buries February Sales, Prices Inch Up

CHICAGO — Sales fell alongside the snow in February, according to this month’s StatShot survey, with heavy winter storms affecting every region in the nation.

“The first two weeks of February were decimated by snowstorms,” says the operator of a large Midwestern chain. “In my 30-plus years in the business, this is probably the worst winter from a weather and sales standpoint.”

February 23, 2011
StatShot: Weather Hurts January Sales; Year-End Shows Promise

CHICAGO — Record snowfalls impacted already slow sales last month across the country, according to the most recent StatShot survey, while year-end 2010 results grew in only one region, but decreased at a slower rate overall.

CHICAGO — Record snowfalls impacted already slow sales last month across the country, according to the most recent StatShot survey, while year-end 2010 results grew in only one region, but decreased at a slower rate overall.

Drycleaners in the Northeast and Midwest were hit the hardest by winter weather, with January sales down 3.4% and 3.5%, respectively, from the same month in 2010. In the South and West, sales fell 2.4% in January from the year prior. Nationwide, average sales dropped 2.9%.

October 27, 2010
Sales Shrank Slowly in September, Third Quarter

CHICAGO — September and third-quarter 2010 sales were down in all regions from the prior year, according to this month’s StatShot Survey. However, the sales declines are no longer the double-digit losses seen early in the “Great Recession.”

Midwestern operators fared the best in September, recording a decrease of 1.9% in sales from the prior year after a slight uptick in August. In the West, sales were down 3.1%, the South lost 3.8%, and the Northeast shed 3.9%. Nationwide, sales were down an average of 2.5%.

May 26, 2010
April Sales Jump in Northeast, West; Payrolls Down

CHICAGO — April sales grew in two regions of the U.S. compared to last year, fueling hopes that the worst of the recession may be coming to an end.

While April 2009 was likely one of the worst on record, more drycleaners in the Northeast reported year-to-year growth, bringing the average sales increase for April 2010 to 7.5% from April 2009. Operators in the West saw sales grow an average 2.6%.

December 3, 2008
Drycleaners Expect Equipment, Supply Costs to Remain Steady in 2009

CHICAGO — Drycleaners expect to keep equipment and supply costs steady in the upcoming year, according to the StatShot panel, a group of industry operators tapped by AmericanDrycleaner.com to contribute financial information anonymously for use at the site.

Nationwide, operators said they expect their plants’ capital expenditures on equipment and supplies to increase an average of 3.2% — about the same rate as inflation. Half (50%) of respondents will try to keep capital expenditures flat, regardless of any price increases in ongoing expenses.

March 31, 2008
Operators Expect to Keep Expenditures Down

CHICAGO — Most drycleaners will try to keep equipment and supply costs steady this year, according to the StatShot panel, a group of industry operators tapped by AmericanDrycleaner.com to contribute financial information anonymously for use at the site.

Nationwide, operators said they expect their plants’ capital expenditures on equipment and supplies to increase 1.25%. Respondents in the Midwest led the increases with an expected 8.75% uptick in costs this year.

September 12, 2007
Two-Fifths of Drycleaners Raise Prices

CHICAGO — Two-fifths (40%) of drycleaners nationwide raised prices during the first six months of the year, according to a survey panel of industry operators tapped by AmericanDrycleaner.com to provide financial and cost data anonymously.