The ISM’s Manufacturing Report on Business stated that the index the ISM uses to measure the manufacturing sector—also known as the PMI—was 57.0 percent in December, which was 0.4 percent higher than November.

Even though many facets of the industrial real estate market are not close to a full recovery, one area in which appears to be growing are markets with strong logistics infrastructure that serve as distribution hubs to regions with large populations

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Strained distributor improves speed and accuracy from the warehouse to the store shelf.

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Creative partnership replaces multiple vendors with a single service provider.

A new report by IBM Global Business Services observes that the current economic environment is increasingly more volatile, complex and structurally different than in years past.

Data from Panjiva, an online search engine with detailed information on global suppliers and manufacturers, stated that the number of waterborne shipments entering the United States fell 2% from October to November.

According to the think tank’s chief economist, Daniel J. Meckstroth, a large majority of manufacturing industries expanded here in November

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