Industrial SMEs on Alert: 8 Out of 10 Point to Lack of Sales and Increased Tension in the Payment Chain
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A private survey showed that production fell 11% year-on-year and reached the lowest level in the last seven years, with a much greater deterioration among small firms; one in four companies was already behind in one of its maturities, twice as much as almost a year ago
The fear that the chain will be cut exceeded the rising costs of raw materials among the concerns.The main concern is the fall in demand and production.
According to the PyME Industrial Co-juncture Report of the PyME Observatory Foundation, 24% of the companies recorded at least a delay in their obligations, twice the 12% recorded nine months earlier. At the same time, the difficulties to collect, in a scenario marked by the fall in sales, the increase in costs and a new contraction of activity. The delay in payments was not limited to a small group of companies. 24% of the industrial SMEs consu…
Buenos Aires, 19 August (NA) -- One in four SMEs was delayed in their payments during the second quarter of 2026, which meant that 24 per cent of the industries recorded defaulted maturities, double as compared to 2025. The main concern is the fall in sales with 81 per cent, followed by late payments by customers with 62 per cent, because the deadlines became longer than usual, third the concern about the cost of raw materials with 60 per cent a…
A report by the PyME Observatory revealed that the tension in the payment chain became the second concern of the domestic industry, in a context marked by the decrease in consumption, rising costs and the lowest level of production of the last seven years.The chain of payments of the manufacturing sector [...] The entry The late payment of the SME was doubled and one in four companies already recorded delays in their payments was first published…
The delays to collect reached 62% of the manufacturing sector Pyme. Production fell 11% year-on-year and employment accumulates 14 consecutive quarters of decline. Employment in this type of companies also contracted 4.5% year-on-year but has accumulated 14 consecutive quarters of decline. The data were published by the PyME Observatory Foundation ... It doubled the lateness of SMEs: One in four industrial companies is delayed with their payment…
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