- PSB Handel SA Group tracks the prices of leading construction, home and garden materials, which allows us to observe changes in trends.
- In July 2024 vs. July 2023, the price dynamics amounted to minus 0.9%. In the retail channel, the price decrease was -1.7%, while in the wholesale channel, prices increased by +0.2%.
- Comparing July 2024 to June this year, the average price of materials changed only by +0.1%. Analyzing the data cumulatively (for the period January-July 2024 to 2023), their dynamics remain at minus 2.5%.
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The increase in the prices of construction materials has stopped. More decreases than increases
PSB Trade on building material prices
Prices fell by 1% in the following groups: decorations, installations, heating, equipment, household appliances, joinery and thermal insulation. In the following groups, the following prices fell: tiles, bathrooms, kitchens, waterproofing and tools (-2% each), lighting, electrics (-3%), garden and hobby (-4%), dry construction and roofs, gutters (-5% each). The biggest drop occurred in the finishing category (-7%).
Product prices in July 2024, compared to June this year, increased in 10 product groups. In these categories, prices increased by up to 1%: tiles, bathrooms, kitchens, home surroundings, roofs, gutters, waterproofing, decorations, construction chemicals, installations, heating, tools, lighting, electrics and garden, hobby. Prices in the equipment and household appliances group did not change. In 8 groups, prices dropped by up to 1%: walls, chimneys, paints, varnishes, cement, lime, dry construction, joinery, automotive, finishes and OSB boards, wood. The largest price drop occurred in thermal insulation (-1.3%).
However, for the period January-July 2024 vs the same period in 2023, price increases were recorded in 3 product groups, with the largest increase in cement, lime (+5%) and a 3% increase in the prices of paints, varnishes, and 1% in construction chemicals. Prices in the automotive category did not change. Meanwhile, price drops occurred in 16 categories. Prices dropped by 1% in the groups: joinery and equipment, household appliances. Next in order were: decorations, installations, heating and tiles, bathrooms, kitchens (-2% each), tools, walls, chimneys, waterproofing, home surroundings and lighting, electrical (-3% each), garden, hobby (-4%), thermal insulation (-5%), dry construction and finishes (-6% each) and roofs, gutters (-7%). And the largest price drops occurred in OSB boards and wood (-13%).
What do we know about the PSB Handel Group
PSB Handel SA Group (headquarters) with headquarters in Wełcz near Busko-Zdrój, has been operating on the market for over 25 years. It is the largest and fastest growing network of building materials wholesalers and home and garden stores in Poland. Currently, the Group includes over 400 small and medium-sized, family-owned companies from all over Poland, which trade in 287 building materials stores, in 373 PSB Mrówka stores and in 78 PSB Profi retail outlets. These outlets employ approximately 14 thousand people.
The total revenues of PSB partners from the sale of construction materials and home and garden materials in 2023 reached nearly PLN 9 billion, which is approximately 18% of the share in the domestic market for the distribution of construction materials. The revenues of the PSB Handel SA Group (headquarters) amounted to PLN 3.9 billion.
