Special: high costs altered business strategies

At the same time that the pockets of consumers have been hit hard by an inflatetion that reached the highest level since 1998 in 2022 (variation of 13.12% according to Dane)companies and millions of businesses of all sizes have been faced with an unusual rise in the value of their inputs, to which they have had to respond not only with strict control of this variable, but with actions so that your sales and profitability are affected as little as possible.

Although today the producer price index has been falling, Portfolio inquired with different productive sectors and found, for example, actions to make the supply effective and more promotions, but also the delivery of housing with fewer finishes and even reducing the percentage of dividends to be distributed.

However, in most cases it has been inevitable to transfer the increase to the consumer end, but seeking to affect it as little as possible.

2023 will not only be a key period for the economic future of the country in the coming years due to the legislative process of reforms of great draft, such as health, pension and the labor market.

It is the year of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of Portfoliothe leading medium for economic and business information in the country and in which, just like three decades ago, when Colombia recently launched key changes as a result of its new political constitutiontowill be a key benchmark for the analysis of events in the economy and on which the business community makes its decisions.

In these 30 years, Portafolio has evolved from being weekly and then a diaryto become today a economic information platform which includes the printed newspaper, Portafolio magazine, the Portafolio.co portal, the most visited of its kind, and a division of forums.

Between this May 29 and the month of September, through events, anniversary content and journalistic specialsPortafolio will analyze with its readers and audiences these 30 years of changes, progress and evolution of the Colombian economy and companies, as well as the keys to the future.

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