{"id":563085,"date":"2026-07-28T10:47:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=563085"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:33:14","slug":"business-executives-report-declining-inventories-economy-ministry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/business-executives-report-declining-inventories-economy-ministry-says","title":{"rendered":"Business Executives Report Declining Inventories, Economy Ministry Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Economy Ministry has published selected results of its business survey conducted in July.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the ministry&#8217;s press service did not disclose data on industrial capacity utilization. In June, the figure stood at 70%, while in May it was 67%. At the same time, the ministry noted that the average order backlog remained unchanged at 2.9 months.<\/p>\n<p>According to the survey, 72% of respondents reported that production either increased or remained stable in July, while 75% (+1 percentage point compared with June) said demand had either grown or remained stable.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry also said that 35% of respondents reported a decline in finished goods inventories.<\/p>\n<p>Most participants in the survey indicated that employment levels remained unchanged. Eleven percent of respondents (+1 percentage point) reported an increase in the number of employees.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIn the short term, more than half of senior executives believe the current demand trend will remain unchanged, while another 35% of respondents (-2 percentage points compared with June) expect demand to increase. Forty-three percent of company executives (-7 percentage points) plan to increase production, while 19% (+2 percentage points) intend to expand their workforce,\u201d<\/i> the ministry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economy Ministry has published selected results of its business survey conducted in July. This time, the ministry&#8217;s press service did not disclose data on industrial capacity utilization. In June, the figure stood at 70%, while in May it was 67%. At the same time, the ministry noted that the average order backlog remained unchanged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":520936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a68694dc8161.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Business Executives Report Declining Inventories, Economy Ministry Says"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}