Monthly visual representations of key metrics that provide a quick and easy pulse on metalworking manufacturing.
Enabling manufacturers to make data-driven decisions that build business.
Gardner’s ability to navigate the intersection between end-markets and manufacturers is a specialization that few intelligence groups can honestly offer. Our deep involvement in manufacturing for more than 90 years gives us the unique ability to do more than just pass along general market information--we deliver the information manufacturers need to make data-driven, profitable decisions.
Monthly visual representations of key metrics that provide a quick and easy pulse on metalworking manufacturing.
The Gardner Business Index (GBI) contracted in April to the same degree as March.
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Gardner Intelligence, delivering market intelligence to industrial manufacturing for nearly 50 years, offers a variety of resources, including the Gardner Business Index.
Gardner Intelligence has the research and analysis expertise, customer access, data sources, and industry knowledge to provide objective business advice.
Top Shops is a benchmarking and recognition program designed to help shops build their business. Data is collected across categories including operations, technology, business strategy, and human resources.
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A comprehensive study of the global machine tool industry, its impact on the U.S., and analyses of 50 different countries' machine tool imports, exports, production, and consumption.
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The Capital Spending Survey is the leading tool for understanding projected spending on capital equipment, software, and more in the metalworking, plastics processing, and additive manufacturing industries.
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The GBI is a diffusion index measuring month-to-month changes in activity at durable goods and discrete parts manufacturing facilities.
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Gardner Intelligence serves each of the industries covered by the editorial division of Gardner Business Media. This means that our team is partnering with some of the best editors and knowledge experts in Metalworking, Production Machining, Finishing, Plastics, Mold Making, Composites and Additive Manufacturing.
We serve three distinct types of clients. Our largest client category is manufacturing business leaders who want to grow navigate their company through the volatile and dynamic world of manufacturing. Gardner also serves OEMs and large suppliers to the manufacturing space who may sell indirectly into a variety of end-markets and lastly the finance sector where we serve financial advisors, M&A and investment services firms.
