In November, U.S. distributors’ year-to-date sales of power transmission/motion control products climbed 10.7% as compared to sales for January through November 2005, according to the latest November trend data released by the Power Transmission Distributors Association. Sales fell 3.6% over the previous month and were up 7.8% as compared to November 2005.
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Days sales in accounts receivables rose 1.3% as compared to October 2006 and increased 2.9% as compared to the same month last year.  ; Annualized sales to inventory ratio in November was 8.3, compared to 7.9 in 2005.
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For November, the confidence level of U.S. distributors decreased to 6.2 from 6.3 in October on a 10-point scale.
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Canadian distributors’ …
