Gardner Intelligence Reports
Gardner Intelligence’s annual Capital Spending Survey, monthly Gardner Business Index, and Media Usage in Manufacturing study are three of the most unique and widely-leveraged business insight reports in durable goods manufacturing. The World Machine Tool Survey is an independent annual survey that collects statistics from machine tool consuming and producing countries and compares them in real U.S. dollars. Below are our current reports available for purchase.
Gardner Business Index
The Gardner Business Index (GBI) is a diffusion index measuring month-to-month changes in activity at durable goods and discrete parts manufacturing facilities.
Top Shops
‘Top Shops’ is a benchmarking and recognition program designed to help shops build their business. Data is collected across categories including operations, technology, business strategy, and human resources. Select measures are scored and summed to total scores that serve as the basis for honoring certain shops as ‘Top Shops.’
World Machine Tool Survey
An independent annual survey that collects statistics from machine tool consuming and producing countries and compares them in real U.S. dollars.
Capital Spending Survey
An annual survey that collects statistics regarding budgeted spending on machine tools, testing equipment, software and more that are then projected across the metalworking industry based on plant size.
- 2013 Metalworking Cap Spending Reports
- 2013 Tooling Equipment Report
- 2013 Workholding Equipment Report
- 2014 Metalworking Cap Spending Reports
- 2014 Plastics Processing Capital Spending Report
- 2015 Metalworking Cap Spending Reports
- 2015 Plastics Processing Capital Spending Report
- 2016 Metalworking Capital Spending Forecasts
Media Usage in Manufacturing
Review results of Gardner Intelligence's annual Media Usage in Manufacturing Survey including commentary on business-to-business marketing trends impacting companies tasked with marketing to today's industrial buyer.