Building Material Sales Grow 4%

According to the National Association of building Material dealers (Anamaco) retail sales of building material grew 4% in January compared to the same month of 2016. Already compared to December, the fall was 11%. "After two terrible of the worst years of your historical series, building material retailers expect to grow back in 2017 and already showing signs of resumption," said the organisation in a statement. Meanwhile, according to the Abramat thermometer-Brazilian Association of industries of building materials, the internal market, sales for February, is 18.5% (good), keeping same level for January this year.
The Pessimism in the business community still according to the Abramat thermometer, for February 2017, the pessimism of the business community is 3.7% (very bad) and 14.8% (bad). Compared to January of the same year, the pessimism of the construction material industry suffered significant reduction. Sales to the international market, in February, also has good prospects. In all, 6.3% consider the very good performance and 31.2% good for the second month of the year. "The materials industry presents a small improvement in sales expectations for the month of February, but still predominating opinion about just regular sales. The businessman also indicates an improvement on expectations of government action, although still predominates a vision of indifference in that topic. ", says Walter Cover, President of Abramat.