non-durables
non-durable goods

This is analogous to the distinction between consumer durables and non-durables.

To a lesser extent, there is the manufacture of food products, consumer non-durables, and building materials for the local market and for neighboring Haiti.

(Note: Non-durables that are consumed physically when utilized, e.g. chocolate or lubricants, are not discussed.

Today the Lakhani family manages and owns companies that are industry leaders in their respective sectors including consumer non-durables, fast food, financial services, media, surgical instruments, technology, textiles and travel.

But the big rises in indebtedness came in industries where cash flow is more stable, such as public utilities, services and the manufacturing of non-durables such as food and tobacco.

Huntsman serves a variety of end markets, the largest of which is consumer durables and non-durables, followed by paints and coatings, insulation and other construction materials, chemicals, energy and aerospace.

While buying durable goods comes under the category of Investment demand of Goods, buying Non-Durables comes under the category of Consumption demand of Goods.

Azeredo (2007) shows that traditional pre-1930 consumption measures understate the extent of serial correlation in the U.S. annual real growth rate of per capita consumption of non-durables and services ("consumption growth").

This average conceals an important fact: many of the industries that tend to suffer most during recessions (suppliers of consumer durables, transport and communications, for example) have actually cut their debt-service burden since 1980; the biggest increases in debt service have been taken on by relatively stable industries (such as producers of services and consumer non-durables).

Generally the life span of non-durable goods may vary from a few minutes to up to three years.

Orders for both durable and non-durable goods totaled $199.8 billion in April, the department said.

Examples include non-durable goods such as soft drinks, toiletries, and grocery items.

Throughout the year it has been difficult to achieve sales gains in durable and non-durable goods without price discounting.

Consumer non-durable goods are purchased either for the immediate use or to keep it for very short span of time.

The operating rate for non-durable goods edged down to 85.5 percent of capacity, compared with 85.7 percent in August.

Non-durable goods climbed by seven-tenths of 1 percent, after a 1.1 percent jump in October.

These personal expenditures fall under one of the following categories: durable goods, non-durable goods, and services.

At the sector level, manufacturing industries - including both durable and non-durable goods manufacturers - have tended to perform well.

Source for householdlevel postage expenditures and other non-durable goods expenditures.

In rural Pakistan, dowry values are still relatively low, around 12% of a household's annual (non-durable goods) expenses.

Guadalajara's economy during the 18th century was based on agriculture and the production of non-durable goods such as textiles, shoes and food products.

Non-durable goods (products used less than three years) are 27 percent, and durable goods are 16 percent.

"Clearly we're going to have a redirection from consumer non-durable goods" to replacement and repair of damaged structures and property, he said.

That could cause the softness in the sale of apparel and other non-durable goods to spread to consumer goods in general.

Spending on durable goods - big-ticket items such as automobiles and appliances - and non-durable goods declined.

Purchases of non-durable goods -items not expected to last three years - rose $2 billion in February after having fallen $7.7 billion in January.

Partly as a result of the methodology chosen, a subsidiary aim was to examine the links between expenditure on durable as opposed to non-durable goods.

Services-oriented labor revolves around the provision of consumable, non-durable goods and the fulfillment of tasks by an external source for the consumer.

Both durable and non-durable goods consumption declined as households moved from low to high leverage with the decline in property values experienced during the subprime mortgage crisis.

It consists of the actual and imputed expenditures of households and includes data pertaining to durable and non-durable goods and services.

Manufacturing Plant Output Production at manufacturing plants making both durable and non-durable goods rose two-tenths of a percent after remaining flat in May and June.

Spending for non-durable goods rose at an annual rate of $1.2 billion, while consumer purchases of services, which have been strong all year, climbed at a rate of $6.2 billion.

Production of durable goods, items built to last three or more years, rose eight-tenths of 1 percent in July, while output of non-durable goods increased nine-tenths of 1 percent.

"If housing isn't going to be gaining momentum, especially new-home sales and starts, the durable and non-durable goods that go into thosehouses are not going to get sold," Mr. Berner said.