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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

Security-service SMEs to grow at 18-20%, expects CRISIL Research

More than three-fourths of the SMEs in the industry are present in the manned guarding segment

CRISIL SME Tracker: Lending boost can give service-sector MSEs a lift

This is in line with the trend seen in the recent edition of CriSidEx, where 60 per cent of lenders reported highest credit growth in the sub-~10 million exposure segment

US-China spat may spell manna for SME leather exporters: CRISIL

The US, the UK, Germany, Spain, France and Italy account for more than half of overall leather exports from India

Productivity key to fortunes of engineering micro enterprises: CRISIL

A majority of these non-corporate micro enterprises experience challenges in getting bank loans for capacity expansion and meeting working capital requirements

CRISIL SME tracker: For manufacturing MSEs, it makes sense to create brands

This is because creation of brands helps MSEs build differentiation for their products and earn customer loyalty, thereby ensuring they command better prices and greater market penetration

Crisil SME tracker: Flood-hit Kerala MSEs stare at working capital hiccups

As per the National Sample Survey, 2016, Kerala had 2.379 million MSEs, employing 4.464 million people

CRISIL SME Tracker: Working capital gap widening for MSMEs

The working capital gap is a critical barometer of an enterprise's ability to meet its daily financing needs

CRISIL SME Tracker: Working capital woes continue to hobble leather MSEs

Delays in Goods and Services Tax refunds aggravated the problem, resulting in estimated working capital days of 125 days in the last fiscal

CRISIL SME trackrer: Trailing B-schools have their task cut out

All this limits other B-schools from imparting quality education and achieving desired outcomes (lucrative placements), leading to low seat occupancy

CRISIL SME Tracker: For EPC players, affordable housing is a natural fit

This affords huge scope for developers - meeting the government's target of construction of 12 million units by 2022 requires construction of about three million units per year in urban areas