Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
April 1, 2020
Zooming – sounds like a new drug, doesn’t it?
We will be hosting another SMU Community Chat Webinar on Wednesday, April 22, at 11:00 a.m. ET (and I promise to hit the “start” button on time this week). Speaking with me will be Bernard Swiecki of the Center for Automotive Research (CAR). We will discuss how automotive has been affected by the coronavirus and how automotive demand will look when this is behind us (and how soon manufacturing plants will return). Every week I give a few insights into what I am hearing in the marketplace and/or what we are collecting from our surveys. You can register for this week’s webinar by clicking here.
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Each individual bi-weekly questionnaire has a time sensitive component to it. Last week we were looking for more information about demand, and what our respondents were anticipating for changes in their business through the end of this month. We shared a portion of the results with everyone this evening. However, there is much more, and we will provide article(s) to our Premium members on what else we discovered.
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