What You Will Learn
The economic landscape is shifting — and so are the dynamics within the kitchen and bath industry. Headlines, policy changes, and market signals are creating new challenges that will shape demand, project pipelines, and pricing power throughout 2025.
Join Heather Shannon and Tricia Zach of the National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA), along with Nishu Sood and Elizabeth La Jeunesse of John Burns Research & Consulting (JBREC), for a one-hour webinar designed to help kitchen and bath professionals cut through the noise and plan ahead with confidence. This session will explore the latest economic developments through the lens of the Q1 2025 Kitchen & Bath Market Index (KBMI) and what they mean for your business.
Drawing on the latest KBMI findings—produced jointly by NKBA and JBREC—Tricia Zach and Elizabeth La Jeunesse will share insights from industry professionals across design, construction, retail, and manufacturing. They will examine how K&B professionals in these segments are responding to current economic uncertainty, including the potential effects of new tariffs, rising product costs, labor shortages, shifting consumer confidence, and more.
Nishu Sood will present an updated macroeconomic outlook for 2025, highlighting slowing job growth, rising recession risks, and the powerful influence of media sentiment on market behavior. He’ll also examine major policy shifts — including potential tariffs — and their anticipated impact on renovations, material costs, and labor availability. Plus, Nishu will walk through key macroeconomic indicators and the unusual patterns adding new layers of complexity to today’s market.
Don’t miss this timely and actionable discussion designed to help you stay ahead in a changing market.
Featured Presenter
Heather Shannon, Senior Vice President, Marketing &
Communications, NKBA | KBIS
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Tricia Zach, Head of Research, NKBA | KBIS
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Elizabeth La Jeunesse, Vice President of Building Products Research at John Burns Research and Consulting (JBREC)
Meet Elizabeth La Jeunesse, Vice President of Building Products Research at John Burns Research and Consulting (JBREC). Elizabeth has a rich background researching emerging trends in the remodeling industry and macroeconomic forecasting. She oversees several projects informing forecasts of the US repair and remodel market and manages the quarterly Kitchen and Bath Market Index. Elizabeth previously worked as an economic researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, where she honed her skills sizing the market for remodeling activity and conducted regular surveys to understand contractor trends.
Featured Presenter
Nishu Sood, Principal, John Burns Research & Consulting
Nishu Sood is a Principal at John Burns Research & Consulting, focusing on research across the residential sector. Before joining JBREC earlier this year, he was the Head of Real Estate Research at Pretium. Prior to that he spent nearly two decades as the lead equity research analyst for the Homebuilding & Building Products sector at UBS, Deutsche Bank and Citi. He also spent five years at consulting firm Stern Stewart, living and working in Johannesburg, Sydney and London. Nishu graduated from Columbia College and Columbia Business School in New York. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the CFA Society of New York and lives in the New York area.
