5%
of industrial managers view the current economic situation at their enterprises as ‘favourable’.
The majority of respondents (72%) report a ‘satisfactory’ status. Almost a quarter of the companies stated that the situation was ‘unsatisfactory’.
These data are presented in a new Monitoring the Business Climate at Russian Industrial Enterprises study that was conducted in June 2015 by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK).
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30%
of entrepreneurs in service industries reported a decrease in consumer demand for their services in the fourth quarter of 2015.
2%
of representatives of small manufacturing companies who are prepared to take out long-term loans to develop and modernize their operations would agree to do so at rates comparable to the current rates of 18-21%.
15%
of directors at Russian industrial companies in October reported a decrease in the number of employees compared to September.
+4%
was the index of business confidence in retail trade. The indicator’s value increased after six months of being in a critical zone near zero.
–14%
was the level to which the business confidence index in building materials production fell in May of this year.
-12%
was the level to which the business confidence index in the service sector fell in the first quarter of 2015. This is a record decline. For the year, the value of the index has fallen by 10 percentage points.
26%
of Russian industrial enterprises recorded a decline in profits in February compared to the previous month. This is the worst result recorded over the last four and a half years.
30%
of entrepreneurs in the retail sector reported that they had reduced headcount in their organizations in the fourth quarter of 2014. Compared with the beginning of the year, the trend with respect to headcount reductions has doubled.
31%
of construction companies are experiencing a shortage in graduates from educational institutions who have either technical training or who specialize in a trade.