This was revealed by a business survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics. The first place is occupied by builders. Answering the questions, they more often expressed optimism about the emerging economic conditions for business and the increase in sales revenues in the second quarter of the year.
Representatives of the manufacturing industry are not so confident about the market conditions, but they have no doubts about the turnover. Both forecast a moderate increase in prices for their products.
The balance of affirmative answers of heads of trade and service enterprises is more modest. Although the majority of them answer positively about the business environment, increase in sales revenue and price growth.
However, the enthusiasm of representatives of business circles drops noticeably when it comes to labor supply. Here the smallest difference in positive and negative answers is found. Although the overall situation seems relatively stable for the time being.
Only heads of large enterprises spoke about the increase in the number of employees. They were mostly optimistic about other issues of future market conditions.
Spring business surveys unexpectedly revealed a new problem – provision of enterprises with modern equipment and production/commercial premises. This limitation of business activity was reported by 3.6% of respondents in the first quarter.
And, traditionally, a third of respondents attribute their failures to insufficient market demand, about a quarter – face financial problems. In third place is the acute shortage of skilled labor. The regional crisis caused by military actions has receded into the background.
However, the overall number of respondents reporting constraints has dropped markedly compared to previous surveys. Almost half of the respondents are not inclined to look for someone to blame.
