Almost halved before. More than doubled now. In the end, the balance is positive and the run of industry revenues, in trend growth of 105% in April, it’s more than just a physiological rebound after the collapse 12 months earlier.
The Istat data continues to jump forward in sales, which is confirmed in terms of the index well beyond the levels of early 2020, thanks to a recovery that affects both exports and the domestic market, where however the recovery is more marked.
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Only the latest in a series of positive signs, such as the purchasing managers’ index reached all-time highs, the click of applications for the Sabatini-bis with relative depletion of funds, yet another step forward in the confidence indices. Moving on to the raw materials crisis and the surge in relative prices, which on the one hand signals a worrying difficulty in maintaining the required production rate, on the other it is an undoubted indicator of the strength of global demand, transversal for all production sectors. .
Compared to March, the increase in revenues is 3.3% but it is obviously the most striking annual comparison, after the -47% recorded in perhaps the hardest month for Italian industry since the post-war period.
Gap has largely recovered now, albeit not in a completely homogeneous way. The means of transport, for example, had left three quarters of sales on the field but the current recovery (+ 452%) brings the balance back to positive ground. The same is not true for textiles-clothing, although the protagonist of a growth of 309%, sales that have more than quadrupled but do not completely close the chasm opened in April 2020, when the collapse was 78%.