Good takeaways for small business in the report of benchmarking metrics for retail and consumer goods businesses.
Excerpt: The 2012 Financial Performance Report, Profitable Growth: Driving the Demand Chain, provides financial benchmarking results for 142 food, beverage and consumer products industry manufacturers, as well as for 67 retailers, and provides ten distinct articles on the demand chain where manufacturers agree that focus is needed and where significant future investment will be required.
Read introduction and download paper here via Benchmarking retail and consumer company financial performance: PwC.
