{"id":35281,"date":"2020-03-11T07:50:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T02:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/?p=35281"},"modified":"2020-03-11T07:50:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T02:20:54","slug":"indian-companies-profit-margins-still-not-showing-signs-of-improvement-iim-a-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/indian-companies-profit-margins-still-not-showing-signs-of-improvement-iim-a-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian companies’ profit margins ‘still not showing’ signs of improvement: IIM-A survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad\u2019s (IIM-A\u2019s) Business Inflation Expectations Survey (BIES), released last week, has said the profit margins of 75% of the firms have been failing to show any signs of improvement, a trend which has has continued since June 2019. \u201cOverall\u201d, the BIES report says, \u201cThe profit margin scenario is still not showing any clear signs of improvement.\u201d
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BIES selects companies primarily from the manufacturing sector, and the survey results are based on the responses of over 1,200 companies. The survey report says, \u201cThe cost perceptions data shows that the signs of significant cost pressures building up have ebbed\u201d, adding, \u201cNearly 47% of the firms believe that the current cost increase is 3.1% and above as compared to the same time last year. Over 1\/4th of the firms perceive that the current cost increase is over 6%.\u201d<\/div>\n
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As for the sales perception, the report says, \u201cData still does not show clear signs of recovery\u201d, adding, \u201cIn January 2020, around 70% of the firms in the sample reported that sales are \u2018somewhat or much less than normal\u2019 as against 72% reporting in December 2019. This proportion has remained around 70% since June 2019.\u201d https:\/\/www.counterview.net\/<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By Our Representative\u00a0 https:\/\/www.counterview.net\/ The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad\u2019s (IIM-A\u2019s) Business Inflation Expectations Survey (BIES), released last week, has said the profit margins of 75% of the firms have been failing to show any signs of improvement, a trend which has has continued since June 2019. \u201cOverall\u201d, the BIES report says, \u201cThe profit margin scenario […]<\/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":[3,54,10,4771,4777],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUKPQ-9b3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35281"}],"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=35281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35283,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35281\/revisions\/35283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}