
Benchmarking is a valuable management tool to see how your business
compares to the rest of the industry. Benchmarking results from January
2011 shows you YTD sales compared to 2009 and other key business
metrics including sales per employee, retailers' most important business
problem, quick ratio/cash on hand, gross margin, operational overhead,
shipping costs and more. The data was tabulated and tracked from a total
of 398 specialty equipment industry manufacturers.
There are a total of three Financial Benchmarking reports published each month, representing manufacturers, retailers and distributors, respectively.