The janitorial supplies channel has changed dramatically over the past decade, as more distribution companies add jan-san products into their product mix. Distributors large and small are diversifying in an effort to grow spend with existing customers. Retailers have also expanded beyond office products into jan-san.
This month's Data Snapshot looks at the estimated size of this increasingly busy market, which Industrial Market Information estimates at $20.1 billion in the U.S. IMI provides data on janitorial supplies across North America; in the U.S., we can provide data down to the postal code level.
IMI's sister company Modern Distribution Management recently released a report on jan-san data called 2014 U.S. MRO Market Analysis: Jan-San MRO Data – Estimated End-User Demand for MRO Products by Region & End-Market. Click here for more details.
Here's a look at the U.S. janitorial supplies market, based on estimated end-market consumption data from IMI in 2014: