Jan. 20, 2025 – The AVP Pulse Index this month dropped 0.1% month-over-month, while increasing 5.9% year-over-year; and 11.4% over the past 36 months. The proprietary AVP Pulse Index – a joint effort between mergers and acquisition advisors Allen-Villere Partners and Rock Products – illustrates the health of the industry in one single trend line, using relevant data that is updated monthly…
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The Office Comeback
As I have written many times before, the last lingering symptom of the COVID-19 Pandemic is really its legacy: shifting the culture of work from the traditional office setting to working from home. But the statistics really don’t bear out this trend except in certain markets, and slowly but surely, the Return-To-Office (RTO) movement is starting to take hold. The…
Read MoreThe Quarry & Aggregates (Q&A) Forum
Rock Products Presents Part One of the Eighth Annual Quarry And Aggregates (Q&A) Forum: Industry Thought Leaders Open Up About The Aggregates Industry, Market Conditions, Trade Shows And Technology. By Mark S. Kuhar and Josephine Patterson Each year, Rock Products reaches out to industry thought leaders to get their take on the aggregates industry. In part one of this feature,…
Read MoreThe Consumer Strengthens
“It’s all over but the shouting.” The expression’s first use in print was in 1842, by Welsh sportswriter Charles James Apperley when reporting a late score in a sporting event. As so it is with the election, but as I have said many times before, election outcomes have near-zero impact on our businesses, and life goes on. Even before the…
Read MoreFirst Look – December 2024
TOP NEWS Vulcan MaterialsVulcan Materials Co. announced results for the quarter ended Sept. 30, reporting total revenues of $2,004 billion, versus $2,186 in the third quarter of 2023. Year-to-date, the company is reporting revenues of $5,564 billion versus $5,948 billion for the same period in 2023. Martin Marietta MaterialsMartin Marietta Materials Inc. reported results for the third quarter ended Sept.…
Read MoreThe AVP Pulse Index for November
Nov. 18, 2024 – The AVP Pulse Index this month rose 0.9% month-over-month, while increasing 8.1% year-over-year; and 12% over the past 36 months. The proprietary AVP Pulse Index – a joint effort between mergers and acquisition advisors Allen-Villere Partners and Rock Products – illustrates the health of the industry in one single trend line, using relevant data that is updated monthly or…
Read MoreFirst Look – November 2024
TOP NEWS MINExpo 2024 Breaks All RecordsMINExpo 2024, held Sept. 24-26 in Las Vegas, hosted 45,000 attendees and more than 2,000 exhibitors from 148 countries who came to see more than 850,000 sq. ft. of exhibits, breaking all prior show records. MINExpo is the world’s largest mining show and is produced by the National Mining Association (NMA). CDE, Granite Unveil…
Read MoreThe Fed Goes Big
That was the subject line on an end-of-day email from one of the major business media enterprises on a Wednesday afternoon in mid-September. It was the day the Fed held its regular meeting, and ended speculation as to whether the all-but-assured rate cut would be 25 basis points, or a more aggressive 50 points. And 50 it was, but it…
Read MoreWelcome to the Aggregates Almanac, 2024 Edition
Welcome to the 2024 edition of the “Aggregates Almanac: The Ultimate Information Resource for Quarry Operators.” Published now for the eighth year in a row, feedback from our readers indicates that this publication is widely used and valued; and retained as a go-to information source. Our updated and improved North American Buyers’ Guide gives producers all of the information they…
Read MoreFirst Look – October 2024
SEMCO Debuts AggNexusThe live event – held Sept. 9-10 on the University of Texas, Austin campus, and sponsored by SEMCO Publishing, parent company of Rock Products – engaged representatives of technology-savvy multinational or independent cement, aggregate, concrete and asphalt producers plus allied software developers or service providers. Wendling QuarriesDeWitt, Iowa-based Wendling Quarries announced that it is “honored and humbled to…
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