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Monthly Survey of Manufacturing sees sales increases

According to February’s Monthly Survey of Manufacturing, released on April 16th, done by Statistics Canada, manufacturing sales increased once again.

Some quick stats:

  1. In eight of the previous nine months, sales have been increasing.
  2. Dollar manufacturing sales have increased every month for the past six months. In February, that increase was 0.3%
  3. Durable good (electronic products, appliances, furniture, etc) sales dropped by 0.3%, but non-durable (foods, clothing, paper, petroleum, etc) good sales increased by 0.3%
  4. Most sales increases were in Ontario and in Western Canada. Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia all saw a decline in sales in February

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