{"id":15599,"date":"2019-07-06T07:27:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T01:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/?p=15599"},"modified":"2019-07-06T07:27:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T01:57:14","slug":"costs-are-up-profit-margins-down-says-iim-a-survey-of-1600-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/costs-are-up-profit-margins-down-says-iim-a-survey-of-1600-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Costs are up, profit margins down, says IIM-A survey of 1,600 companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CV News\/ Friday, July 05, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Costs are up, profit margins down, says IIM-A survey of 1,600 companiesCV News\/\u00a0Friday, July 05, 2019Profit mrgins % responsesThe latest Business Inflation Expectations Survey (BIES), released by the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has revealed that 54% of responses obtained from 1,600 companies say that in May 2019 there was increase in costs in May 2019 up by 3% from 50% reported in April 2019 during the last one year.\u00a0\u201cThe proportion of firms perceiving significant cost increase (more than 6%) in May 2019 has marginally increased to 26% as compared to 25% in April 2019\u201d, the BIES report adds.\u00a0The report further says, \u201cIn May 2019, over 60% of the firms in the sample reported that sales are \u2018somewhat or much less than normal\u2019, a proportion similar during the January-May 2019 period.\u201dAt the same time, the report states, \u201cThe proportion of firms in the sample reporting \u2018normal or greater than normal\u2019 profit margins has declined to 30% in May 2019 from 36% in April 2019.\u201d It adds, \u201cOverall, the profit margin scenario has remained depressed and unchanged in May 2019.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CV News\/ Friday, July 05, 2019 Costs are up, profit margins down, says IIM-A survey of 1,600 companiesCV News\/\u00a0Friday, July 05, 2019Profit mrgins % responsesThe latest Business Inflation Expectations Survey (BIES), released by the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has revealed that 54% of responses obtained from 1,600 companies say that in May 2019 there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUKPQ-43B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15601,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599\/revisions\/15601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}