Industry faces range of challenges - but they are not insurmountable

摘要

This commentary last year remarked that'fiscal 2017 was different. An industry that usually soldiered on despite what the commentators like to call 'headwinds' had faltered. In many cases turnover had fallen and profitability was not nearly as robust. The question that remained after the analysis was whether this was just a blip, or the harbinger of more fundamental change.