The essential hour-long webinar is now available on-demand.
By Nicholas Tamarin
The kitchen and bath industry is facing a dynamic economic landscape in 2025. Headlines, policy changes, and market signals are presenting new challenges that will significantly impact demand, project pipelines, and pricing power throughout the year.
To help industry professionals navigate this uncertainty, NKBA | KBIS and John Burns Research & Consulting just released a one-hour webinar delving into the latest economic developments through the lens of the Q1 2025 Kitchen & Bath Market Index (KBMI). This session is designed to provide timely and actionable insights, helping kitchen and bath professionals stay informed and make strategic decisions in a changing market.
What to Expect
The webinar features findings from leading experts, including Heather Shannon and Tricia Zach of NKBA | KBIS, and Nishu Sood and Elizabeth La Jeunesse of John Burns Research & Consulting.
- Macroeconomic Outlook: Sood provides an updated macroeconomic outlook for 2025, highlighting slowing job growth, rising recession risks, and the influence of media sentiment on market behavior. He also discusses major policy shifts, such as potential tariffs, and their anticipated impact on renovations, material costs, and labor availability.
- Industry Perspectives: Zach and La Jeunesse share findings from the latest KBMI, drawing on input from professionals across design, construction, retail, and manufacturing. They examine how these segments are responding to current economic uncertainty, including the potential effects of new tariffs, rising product costs, labor shortages, and shifting consumer confidence.
Featured Presenters
Heather Shannon: Senior Vice President, Marketing & Communications, NKBA | KBIS.
Tricia Zach: Head of Research, NKBA | KBIS.
Elizabeth La Jeunesse: Vice President of Building Products Research at John Burns Research and Consulting. La Jeunesse brings a wealth of experience in researching remodeling industry trends and macroeconomic forecasting, including previous work at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Nishu Sood: Principal, John Burns Research & Consulting. Sood focuses on research across the residential sector and has extensive experience as a lead equity research analyst for the homebuilding and building products sector.
Head over here to view the webinar now!
