What You Will Learn
The economic landscape has continued to shift throughout 2025—and the kitchen and bath industry is feeling the impact. From evolving headlines and policy changes to fluctuating market signals, new challenges are shaping demand, disrupting project pipelines, and influencing pricing power as we head into the second half of the year.
Join our webinar designed to help kitchen and bath professionals navigate this changing economy and plan with clarity. We’ll explore the latest developments through the lens of the Q2 2025 Kitchen & Bath Market Index (KBMI) and the mid-year update to the 2025 Market Outlook, delivering timely insights to inform your business strategy.
- Nishu Sood will share an updated macroeconomic forecast for 2025, analyzing policy shifts and their implications for the Kitchen and Bath Industry. Expect a clear, data-driven look at key market forces and economic indicators.
- Tricia Zach will provide highlights from the NKBA 2025 Kitchen & Bath Market Outlook Update, offering a deeper look at shifting consumer behavior, evolving segment confidence, and what these trends mean for the road ahead.
- Elizabeth La Jeunesse will present the top takeaways from the latest Q2 2025 KBMI findings, produced in partnership with JBREC. She’ll unpack how professionals across design, construction, retail, and manufacturing are responding to persistent economic pressures.
To close the session, Carrie Kennedy will moderate a Q&A, drawing from audience-submitted questions and survey respondents. She’ll guide the discussion, add context, and direct each question to the appropriate expert for deeper insight.
Looking to stay sharp in a shifting market? This session delivers the timely insights and expert takeaways you need to keep your edge.
Featured Presenter
Carrie Kennedy, Project Manager, Research, NKBA | KBIS
Featured Presenter
Tricia Zach, Director of Research, NKBA | KBIS
Featured Presenter
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.
