In 2022, Reunion companies have increased their prices, not their margins, estimates Iédom in a study published at the end of 2023.
In a context still marked by the consequences of the health crisis and the surge in raw material costs linked to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Reunion companies passed on part of these cost increases to the consumer. The consumer price index thus increased by 3,6% in 2022. " On the other hand, underlines the issuing institute, Companies have not increased their margin rate between 2021 and 2022, whose median level even fell by 30,5 % at 28,5 %, On the sample analyzed. The progression of their added value has slowed significantly in 2022 (+3,2 % after +10,3 % in 2021), sign that they absorbed part of the price increase in their inputs. They also created more jobs than they have destroyed in a less promising macroeconomic environment than expected, Which weighed on their result and their operating margins. »»
