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The general climate of business in industry would have been “normal” according to 78% of companies and “unfavorable” according to 14% of them in the fourth quarter 2024 (T4-2024), estimates Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM).
These proportions are 88% and 11% respectively in the “food”, 82% and 18% in “textiles and leather”, 76% and 14% in “chemistry and parachemy”, he said quarterly results of the economic investigation carried out by BAM.
On the other hand, 50% of companies in the “mechanical and metallurgy” qualify the climate of “normal” and 33% “favorable”, specifies the same source. The conditions of supply, in T4- 2024, were “normal” according to 76% of manufacturers and “difficult” according to 23% of them. This last proportion reaches 43% in the “mechanical and metallurgy”, 29% in “chemistry and parachemy”, 21% in “textiles and leather” and 5% in the “agrifood”. They would have recorded stagnation according to industrialists, particularly in the “food” and “mechanical and metallurgy”.
On the other hand, 88 % of companies in “chemistry and parachemy” report stagnation in the workforce, while 12 % report an increase. These proportions are 57 % and 28 % respectively in “textiles and leather”. For the next three months, 75% of manufacturers plan to stagnate the workforce and 17% a drop. The fourth quarter of 2024, unit production costs would have stagnated according to 61% of industrialists and increased according to 30%. This last proportion is 58% in “chemistry and parachemy”, 18% in “textiles and leather” and 9% in the “food”. On the other hand, 40% of manufacturers of the “mechanical and metallurgy” indicate a stagnation of the unit production costs and 39% a decrease. In T4-2024, the cash situation would have been qualified as “normal” by 65% of companies and “difficult” by 32% of them. The latter part reaches 39% in “chemistry and parachemy”, 36% in “mechanical and metallurgy”, 20% in “textiles and leather” and 6% in the “food”.
