Building materials sector: Boom times are back

SARASOTA — The building materials industry, by the results of one new survey, is heading back to a boom.

In fact, 88% of the respondents to the survey, from Brook Chase Associates, a Sarasota-based executive search firm, forecast revenue growth in 2013. Moreover, 84% of the respondents reported a revenue increase in the fourth quarter. Says one respondent: “Next year looks like it is going to be a monster!!! Awesome.”

Brook Chase, with offices in Birmingham, Charlotte, Chicago and San Francisco, in addition to Sarasota, specializes in finding executives for kitchen and bath and plumbing companies. Brook Chase conducts two major surveys a year, where it polls more than 30,000 senior-level executives in or connected to the building materials industry, from manufacturers to homebuilders.