Consolidation in the Distribution of Residential Building Products

The Joint Center for Housing Studies has been working with the Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research on a study investigating the changes that are occurring or will occur in the residential building materials supply chain. To better understand changing demands both “forward” to final customers and “backward” to suppliers and manufacturers, the research team is first investigating the distribution channel. This research is henceforth in this paper referred to as the Harvard Distribution Study…