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Growth Expected for Residential Installation Biz

Nearly 83 percent of the 274 installing dealers surveyed in Parks Associates' Installing Dealer ePanel believe that sales volume in 2002 will improve significantly over 2001. This renewed optimism should be encouraging to manufacturers, who have weathered a difficult year and are wary of vague projections of an economic turnaround. [Read more in the Parks Associates press release "Installing Dealers Expecting Robust Growth for Residential Sales in 2002."]

From the article "Growth Expected for Residential Installation Biz."

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