COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Heating, Airconditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) announced North American HVACR average distributor sales for November 2011 were down 1.7 percent from the same month last year. The dip is the first such decline since October 2010.
The modest November decline is in comparison to a record-setting 24 percent average growth rate in November of last year. November’s slide coincided with a decline in HARDI distributor’s average annual growth rate after October’s upward swing.