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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

CRISIL SME TRACKER: West Bengal cold storages run into rental wall

Besides renting out, these cold storages also provide advances to farmers and traders in lieu of cold storage receipts, which account for two-thirds of the assets of cold storages in Bengal

CRISIL SME Tracker: MSMEs offer working capital opportunity for lenders

CRISIL's interactions with MSMEs show working capital worries building because of limited avenues to raise finance at reasonable rates

CRISIL SME Tracker: Time for MSMEs in the machine tools sector to rejig

The industry logged a healthy compound annual growth rate of 11 per cent in the past five fiscals, and is expected to continue growing at a healthy pace

Crisil SME Tracker: With PSUs on board, TReDS may ease MSME liquidity woes

CRISIL's analysis shows that while average receivables days and cost of funds of MSMEs are declining, they still remain high