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October Was Fastenal's Best Month Of 2016 For Daily Sales Growth-The 18th China(Guangzhou)Int¡¯l Fastener & Equipment Exhibition
11/17/2016 fastener expo |
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Fastenal reported its October sales results on Friday, led by a 3.9 percent year-over-year increase in daily sales.
The Winona, MN-based company posted October sales of $335.3 million, down 0.8 percent overall from a year earlier, but October 2015 had an additional selling day.
The daily sales increase was Fastenal''s best month of 2016, and ahead of September''s growth of 2.8 percent. That makes for eight months of daily sales growth out of 10 months in 2016, with the other two being flat.
Here''s how the past 13 months of Fastenal''s daily sales growth has been:
October 2016: +3.9 percent
September 2016: +2.8 percent
August 2016: +0.3 percent
July 2016: +2.1 percent
June 2016: 0.0 percent
May 2016: +1.1 percent
April 2016: +3.8 percent
March 2016: 0.0 percent
February 2016: +2.6 percent
January 2016: +3.3 percent
December 2015: -3.8 percent
November 2015: -1.1 percent
October 2015: -0.8 percent
Fastenal''s October sales to manufacturing customers grew by 3.6 percent year-over-year, while sales to non-residential construction customers grew by 0.4 percent. Those figures compare with declines of 0.7 percent and 4.7 percent, respectively, in October 2015.
October daily sales of fasteners declined by 0.2 percent year-over-year, while other sales grew by 6.4 percent. Those figures compare with October 2015''s decline of 6.0 for Fasteners and 3.1 percent growth of 3.1 percent.
Fastenal opened three stores during October and closed none, bringing its total store count to 2,548. That follows the company''s count falling by 65 during September. Fastenal has opened 38 stores so far in 2016.
Fastenal net added 148 selling personnel in October, raising its total count to 12,577.
-The 18th China(Guangzhou)Int¡¯l Fastener
& Equipment Exhibition
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