Supply Chain by the Numbers: Week of July 15, 2009
 

-July 15, 2009
   
 

This Week's Supply Chain by the Numbers - CSX "Core Price" Increase, Eddie Bauer Debt, Kimberly-Clark Gross Margins, US Exports

   
 

The Supply Chain and Logistics Numbers Worth Knowing This Week: CSX Price is Right, Eddie Bauer Debt as Big as All Outdoors, Kimberly-Clark Gross Margins Nothing to Sneeze At, Q2 U.S. Exports - A Pleasant Surprise

   
 
 
 

6.6%

The average level of “core price” increase that rail carrier CSX was able to achieve in the second quarter, despite a volume decrease of 21% year over year, according to the company’s Q2 earnings report this week.
 
 



 

$700,000

The amount retailer Eddie Bauer owes freight forwarder Expeditors International, an amount unlikely to be repaid after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy recently.
 
 
3.6%

Increase in gross margins for consumer package goods giant Kimberly-Clark in Q2, to 33.2%, as falling input prices helped the bottom line. Pulp paper prices were down 28% in the quarter, for example.
 
 
 
 
1.6%

The increase in US exports in May, a surprise to many analysts who were expecting a decline in export volumes, and a hopeful sign for the economy. Several analysts now say that GDP probably actually expanded slightly in Q2, while most everyone was expecting a decline.