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Number of cubicles in the United States
Category: Business and Money > Small Businesses Asked by: billnkar-ga List Price: $10.00 |
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18 May 2004 22:46 PDT
Expires: 17 Jun 2004 22:46 PDT Question ID: 348618 |
I am producing a product that is made for use in a cubicle. In an effort to estimate sales, I would like to know how many cubicles there are in the United States. Please include a measure of uncertainty (ie, +/- 10%) | |
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Re: Number of cubicles in the United States
Answered By: ragingacademic-ga on 19 May 2004 09:58 PDT Rated: ![]() |
billnkar - great. Picked up your reply in comments. I think there is actually a way for you to respond to a clarification so that it appears in the part of the page immediately below the question - this will also cause an alert to be generated and send to me via email... (also a good way to get a hold of me if you ever want to post another question to my attention) So, to answer your question... According to an article in Plastics News from September 17, 2001 (volume 13 issue 10) titled "Cubicle debacle: Office furniture sales fall" - Sales of office furniture systems totaled approximately $13.3 billion in 2000 2001 sales ended up at about $11.1 billion (impact of recession) 2002 sales were estimated to end flat at about $11.16 billion Since 2003 did not bring about much growth either, let's assume 2003 office furniture sales of $11.2 billion According to Crain's Detroit Business from June 1 1998 - "New Cubicle Designs Curb 'Prairie-Dogging'" - cubicles, officially known as office systems, make up approximately 35% of the U.S. office furniture business. Applying this to the annual sales number from above - we can estimate 2003 cubicle sales at approximately $3.92 billion. Cubicles range in price from $3000 to $7000 (Crain's Detroit Business, June 1, 1998, "Cubicle now tailored to teams, technology"), with the previous article reporting an average price paid of $5,800. Given the range and the fact that this data is about six years old, that seems like a good # to work with. So - With $3.92 billion in annual sales and $5,800 per unit - we have 675,860 units sold annually, which would place the total number of units in service in the US at approximately 13,517,000 (based on a 20 year life estimate). Using a lower estimate for cubicle cost - at $3000 - the number of units sold annually would jump to 1,306,700 or almost double the average estimate. Please let me know if you are in need of additional clarification. All of the articles were extracted from RDS. thanks, ragingacademic |
billnkar-ga
rated this answer:![]() Thats what I was looking for, good assumptions and logical approach for an estimate like this. -billnkar |
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Re: Number of cubicles in the United States
From: clowndevilboy-ga on 19 May 2004 08:01 PDT |
census.gov may be of some use. They have a downloadable .xls file that contains state by state data on company size. However their most recent data is 2001. -Good Luck Ken |
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Re: Number of cubicles in the United States
From: billnkar-ga on 19 May 2004 09:20 PDT |
raginacademic ... not sure this is the way to correspond with you, but I'll try it. As far as your approach, I think yearly sales of cubicles would work. i would like to boil that down to an average number of cubicles sold per year. -Thanks, Bill |
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Re: Number of cubicles in the United States
From: apteryx-ga on 19 May 2004 23:37 PDT |
Hmm. Interesting. I was expecting to see this question answered by a process that produced an estimate of the number of rank-and-file workers ("individual contributors," or ICs) in the US in occupations that are typically encubicled. Wouldn't the number of units sold drop off when hiring drops off, as it has done in the past few years? And wouldn't the rate of replacement decrease when profits are off? Yet there are still umpty-zillion people (+/- 10%) in cubicles. Apteryx |
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Re: Number of cubicles in the United States
From: ragingacademic-ga on 20 May 2004 08:59 PDT |
billnkar, thanks so much for the excellent ranking and the extra tip!! apteryx - good approach. The problem, however, would be that many occupations you may ASSUME require cubicles do not use them. One very major example is the financial services industry, where open spaces are favored. Many news operations do not use cubicles either. A great deal of tasks completed under supervision are done in open spaces. So, one would need to have a very good handle on specific use of office systems occupation by occupation. In any event, since the data was available to take a more direct approach - that is what I did. Thanks for your comments! ragingacademic |
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Re: Number of cubicles in the United States
From: wholesalecubicles-ga on 10 Mar 2005 09:36 PST |
apteryx- Your approach is certainly something to be considered, mostly because not all cubicle sales are new. When cubicle sales are calculated, refurbished or used cubicles may not be included in the count, even though they represent a substantial industry. The company I work for liquidates cubicles from large offices, refurbishes them and resells them in smaller quantities to dealers. It would be wise to take a look at how many people purchase used or refurbished cubicles if they could benefit from your product as well. Jessica www.wholesalecubicles.com |
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