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Benchmarks for small business

One gap when owning and operating a small business is to get a feel for how you are doing compared to your peers. The ATO realises the importance of this and have developed a list of benchmarks to help. 

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  • Air conditioning, refrigeration and heating services
  • Alarm systems installation – fire and security
  • Architectural services
  • Automotive electrical services
  • Bakeries and hot bread shops
  • Barber and men's hairdressing
  • Beauty services
  • Blocklaying services
  • Book retailing
  • Bottle shops and liquor retailing
  • Bricklaying services
  • Cabinet makers
  • Cake shops and patisseries
  • Carpentry services
  • Carpet laying services
  • Catering services
  • Cement rendering
  • Chicken shops
  • Child care services
  • Chiropractic and osteopathic services
  • Cleaning services – building and other industrial
  • Cleaning services – carpet, rug and furniture upholstery
  • Clothing retailing
  • Coffee shops
  • Computer retailing
  • Concreting services
  • Confectionery retailing
  • Courier services
  • Craft shops
  • Delicatessen
  • Delivery services
  • Dental specialists
  • Dental surgeons – general
  • Discount and variety stores
  • Domestic appliance repair and maintenance
  • Driving schools and instructors
  • Electrical and electronic product retailing
  • Electrical services
  • Entertainment media retailing
  • Fence construction
  • Fish and chips shops
  • Fish and seafood retailing – fresh
  • Floor covering retailing
  • Florists
  • Footwear retailing
  • Fruit and vegetable retailing
  • Fuel retailing
  • Furniture removalists
  • Furniture retailing
  • Garden supplies retailing
  • Gift stores
  • Glazing services
  • Grocery retailing and convenience stores
  • Hairdressers
  • Hardware and building supplies retailing
  • Health and fitness centres
  • Health food retailing
  • Homewares retailing
  • Ice cream retailing
  • Kebab shops
  • Landscape construction
  • Laundry and dry-cleaning services
  • Lawn mower retailing
  • Lawn mowing and garden services
  • Machinery and equipment repair and maintenance
  • Manchester and other textile goods retailing
  • Meat and poultry retailing – fresh
  • Motor vehicle parts and batteries retailing
  • Motor vehicle retail – new and used
  • Musical instruments retail
  • Newsagents
  • Painting services
  • Panel beating and smash repairs
  • Pest control services
  • Pets and pet supply retailing
  • Pharmacy
  • Physiotherapy services
  • Picture framing retailing
  • Pizza shops – takeaway
  • Plastering and ceiling services
  • Plumbing services
  • Printing
  • Printing support services
  • Pubs, taverns and bars
  • Restaurants
  • Road freight transport services
  • Roofing services – includes roof tiling, guttering and metal roofing
  • Sports, camping and fishing retailing
  • Sports and physical recreation instruction
  • Stationery goods retailing
  • Takeaway food services
  • Tiling services – floor and wall
  • Timber floor sanding
  • Tobacco retailing
  • Towing services
  • Toy and game retailing
  • Tutoring and coaching
  • Tyre retailing
  • Veterinary services
  • Watch and jewellery retailing

 

 

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