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Home furnishing units will recover faster than garments: CRISIL SME Tracker

While demand for the home furnishings segment (SME share is 70-80 per cent of Rs 700 billion) is expected to decline as well, we expect the segment to pick up sooner than garments

Aatmanirbhar Bharat offers MSMEs short-term respite: Crisil SME Tracker

3.5 trn Atmanirbhar Bharat package for SMEs can increase credit to MSMEs by 18-19% which can address the short-term liquidity crunch. Here's a closer look at the measures announced, and their impact

Coaching classes take online route amid Covid-19 spread: CRISIL SME Tracker

CRISIL's interactions show that most players, even SMEs, have managed to reach students amid the lockdown by switching to online channels.

Lockdown will dent road contractors' sales, margins: CRISIL SME Tracker

Construction was gathering pace after a protracted monsoon when the pandemic halted all activity

Crisil SME Tracker: Profitability of dairy units will rebound in FY21

Retail milk prices rose by 3-4 per cent during April-December 2019

RBI manna for MSME sector can spur demand, says CRISIL SME Tracker

The benefit would be available to MSME loans that were in default but "standard" as on January 1, 2019

Budget's much-needed leg-up for small units: CRISIL SME Tracker

An evaluation of 13,000 MSMEs using the CRISIL Quantix database shows that working capital comprises over half of their need for debt

Higher 'dal' prices spoil the broth for millers: CRISIL SME Tracker

In kharif 2019, sowing was delayed due to late arrival of the south-west monsoon

CRISIL SME Tracker: Small EPC contractors stuck in the realty rut

Over the past three years, the real estate industry has been affected by regulatory changes such as the Goods and Services Tax, Real Estate Regulatory Act, and the thrust on affordable housing

EPC road contractors face slower revenue growth: CRISIL SME Tracker

This is mainly due to lower investments in rural roads via the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) and moderation in awarding by the National Highways Authority of India

SME Tracker: Bulk-drug firms' prospects boosted by focus on niche molecules

Strong demand for formulations and increasing health insurance penetration would also support growth

Electronics industry faces slower revenue growth: CRISIL SME tracker

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which account for nearly a third of the industry's revenue, with a varying share in different segments, are expected to be hit hard

Higher input cost to cut margins of cashew processors: CRISIL SME tracker

The increase in costs is due to a hike in import duty on raw cashew kernels from 45 per cent to 70 per cent, in the Union Budget for 2019-20

CRISIL SME Tracker: Wheat millers facing the heat as demand slumps

SMEs account for bulk of wheat mills in india in value terms

CRISIL SME Tracker: Document skew, regionality to weigh down courier SMEs

The e-commerce industry is the fastest-growing segment of the courier industry, accounting for 25-30 per cent of its revenues

Crisil SME Tracker: A raft of positives for MSMEs in Budget 2019

Among the announcements was a two per cent interest rate subvention on fresh loans for GST-registered MSMEs, which would benefit a fifth of all MSMEs in India

Crisil SME Tracker: Ayushman Bharat a blessing for SME hospitals

The scheme has helped improve health care penetration in terms of both number of people covered and amount of health care assurance, with nearly 15,224 hospitals empanelled and 26 lakh treatments

Small and medium sugar millers' margins will get sweeter: CRISIL

The central government raised the MSP from Rs 29 per kg to Rs 31 in February 2019 and sanctioned soft loans of Rs 10,540 crore to help mills repay their cane debt

Co-working spaces can help MSMEs grow business

In this context, CRISIL believes co-working spaces are a flexible and cost-effective solution for MSMEs to have a full-time marketing or customer support/service team closer to their clients

Small and medium enterprises ride piggyback on cellphone boom

SMEs accounted for nearly a third of the electronics sector revenue pie, with varied share in different segments