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Session 9: Retail, Wholesale Trade and Inventories

Skills Session 1: Gross Domestic Product 2: Measuring Employment 3: International Statistics and Balance of Payments 4: Prices - CPI and PPI 5: Data for Regional Analysis - RIMS 6: US Financial Accounts - Flow of Funds 7: Input-Output and GDP by Industry 8: Corporate Profits and Quarterly Financial Reports 9: Wholesale, Retail Trade, and Inventories 10: ECI, Average Hourly Earnings 11: Manufacturing and Construction Data 12: Production and Capacity Utilization Seminar Home

Session Downloads

Retail and Wholesale Sales and Total Inventories - Scott Scheleur

A User's Perspective - Michael Niemera

Session Links

Census: Monthly Retail Trade

Census: Advance Monthly Retail Trade

Census: Monthly Retail Trade

Census: Inventories

International Council of Shopping Centers Research

Speakers

Allen Grommet, Cambridge Consumer Credit Index, moderator

Scott A. Scheleur
Chief, Retail Indicators Branch
Bureau of the Census

Scott Scheleur is currently the Chief of the Retail Indicators Branch of the US Census Bureau, which is responsible for the Advance Retail Sales, the Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales, and the Quarterly Retail E-commerce releases. His entire career has been spent on the retail and wholesale indicator programs and previously he also headed up the Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey. Scott has been at the Census Bureau since his graduation from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Business Statistics in December 1991.

 

Michael P Niemira
Chief Economist
International Council of Shopping Centers

M ichael P. Niemira is a chief economist and director of research for the New York based International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), which is a membership organization of over 46,000 people in the retail real estate industry. He compiles the widely-followed ICSC-UBS Weekly Chain Store SalesSnapshot – a retail sales monitor – as well as a monthly report Chain Store Sales Trends.

Prior to joining ICSC, he was vice president and senior economist for Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd. for 16 years. Additionally, he worked for PaineWebber, Chemical Bank and Merrill Lynch. Over the years, he was an adjunct instructor at New York University’s Stern Graduate School of Business and at the New York Institute of Finance.

Mr. Niemira has co-authored two books: Forecasting Financial and Economic Cycles, John Wiley & Sons, 1994, and Trading the Fundamentals, Revised Edition, McGraw Hill, 1998. Additionally, he contributed numerous articles to books, journals and magazines, including writing a monthly magazine column about the consumer for the trade publication Chain Store Age.

Mr. Niemira is on advisory panels for the Conference Board’s cyclical indicators project and the Institute for Supply Management’s business surveys.

He has received the A.G. Abramson award from the National Association for Business Economics and was awarded honorary faculty membership by St. John’s University chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon.