According to February’s Monthly Survey of Manufacturing, released on April 16th, done by Statistics Canada, manufacturing sales increased once again.
Some quick stats:
- In eight of the previous nine months, sales have been increasing.
- Dollar manufacturing sales have increased every month for the past six months. In February, that increase was 0.3%
- 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%
- 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