Building Products

Building Products Insights

5 Ways to Develop a Continuity Mindset That Endures
Sound planning and preparation are key to a successful transfer of ownership and continuity for building product manufacturers.

Is Your Board Propelling Organizational Strategy or Holding It Back?
For building product manufacturers, a good board of directors can play a catalytic role in supporting the successful creation and implementation of strategy.

Ready to Drive Innovation? Start by Talking to Your Customers
How building product manufacturers can extract ideas, comments and feedback from customer communities and then leverage that intelligence into useful, relevant innovation.

How Building Products Manufacturers Can Evaluate Sales Performance
The sales assessment process helps to focus internal discussions and communication to build performance, organizational alignment and, ultimately, customer satisfaction.

what we offer

Investment Banking provides
- M&A Advisory
- Capital Formation
- Corporate Finance Services
Our investment banking professionals bring decades of experience maximizing value for leading manufacturers and distributors of residential and commercial building products.
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Management Consulting and Research
- Market and Competitive Intelligence
- Strategy Development and Implementation
- Sales Training and Customer Development
- Succession Planning and Leadership
  Development
- Compensation Planning
Our consulting professionals bring deep understanding of the issues that drive and create growth for our clients.
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how you benefit

We know the market, the players and the industry – so we are up to speed fast and bring unmatched depth of knowledge to any client challenge.

We understand the strategic issues that drive and create value for clients in the building products industry.

Long-term engagement with the industry provides us unequaled access to key decision-makers, which results in better transactions and better market intelligence.

FMI clients gain a competitive edge in an increasingly competitive environment.

“The value was definitely there. Here we are 2.5 years later, and we’re still going back and extracting little bits of information out of the FMI report. It ties into a lot of our annual 5-year strategy plan review updates. FMI’s been a really good resource for us.”

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“We always look to FMI because of the professionalism of their presenters, the quality of the content, and the usefulness it brings to our builder network.”