{"id":1556,"date":"2024-12-05T15:50:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T14:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thexton-de.s3.kersvers.cloud\/?page_id=1556"},"modified":"2025-07-15T15:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T13:26:07","slug":"profit-leakage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thextonarmstrong.de\/en\/profit-leakage\/","title":{"rendered":"Profit Leakage"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Optimise your profits – discover hidden leaks<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Significant proportion of profits leak away at 90% of SMEs<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Our research shows that profit leakage occurs in 9 out of 10 companies surveyed. On average, this amounts to 9% of turnover. You can read how this 9% is distributed across the seven focus areas surveyed in our latest research report. It concludes that pricing & margin policy, productivity and sales & marketing are the main causes of profit leakage.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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What is profit trickle-down?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Profit Leakage = profit from existing business activities that leaks out of the company, expressed in euros<\/p>

Within thexton armstrong’s research, profit leakage is defined as the profit from existing operations that is now leaking out of the company, expressed in euros. This means that a company can make additional profits by operating optimally.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Most profits leak out of pricing & margin policy, productivity and sales & marketing<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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In the survey, each business owner was presented with 63 statements about their business. Detailed analysis shows that a number of sub-areas have a significant impact on whether or not profit leakage occurs. It is concluded that pricing & margin policy, productivity and sales & marketing are the main causes of profit leakage.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Find out how much profit you are missing out on<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Take the Profit Leakage Test yourself and get answers to the question: As an SME business owner, how much profit are you leaking out of your business?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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How can we help you with our methodology?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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You are as important to us as the company. After all, you are the entrepreneur. That is at the heart of everything we do to help you improve, grow, recover and sell your business. This is at the center of everything we can help you with when it comes to business growth, restructuring and transfer. We always start with a Profit Leakage scan. <\/p>

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Profit Leakage Optimise your profits – discover hidden leaks Significant proportion of profits leak away at 90% of SMEs Our research shows that profit leakage occurs in 9 out of 10 companies surveyed. On average, this amounts to 9% of turnover. You can read how this 9% is distributed across the seven focus areas surveyed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1556","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thextonarmstrong.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thextonarmstrong.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thextonarmstrong.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thextonarmstrong.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thextonarmstrong.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thextonarmstrong.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/thextonarmstrong.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1556\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thextonarmstrong.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thextonarmstrong.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}