The average employment agency has seen sales increase by 9.7 percent, from 42.1 million in 2000/01 to 46.2 million in 2002/03

Research and Markets have announced the addition of the 'Employment Agencies report to their offering.

(PRWEB) January 25, 2004 --This summary brings you a sample of key details from this invaluable report. The report itself includes many further analyses of the performance of individual companies and the industry as a whole.

This Business Ratio report focuses on the leading 150 companies operating in the employment agencies industry.

The report analyses company and industry performance over the three years up to 7th February 2003. During this period, the average Report company has seen sales increase by 9.7 percent, from 42.1 million in 2000/01 to 46.2 million in 2002/03 after witnessing a three year high in 2001/02 of 47.2 million. Profits however, realised a decline of 28.1 percent over the review period, from 1.8 million in the first year of analysis to 1.3 million in the last year. Employment agencies have witnessed some mixed results over the three financial years. All profitability ratios declined though they remain healthy. Several other ratios also realised reasonable results after declines from the first year of analysis. It is also worth noting the effects of low stock in the industry on the stock to sales ratio and the acid test

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