{"id":3914,"date":"2008-05-27T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-05-27T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T04:20:00","slug":"higher-margin-clients-take-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/3914-higher-margin-clients-take-top-spot.html","title":{"rendered":"Higher-margin clients take top spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid an outcry over its performance, Business Connexion (BCX) would not sign new clients below profitability thresholds, but would focus on higher-margin clients that delivered quality earnings, it said last week. <\/p>\n<p>This is part of its revitalisation programme which aims to improve profitability.<\/p>\n<p>In the six months to November BCX earned revenue of R2 billion with profit at R43 million.<\/p>\n<p>It has about 1 650 clients but only 2 percent contribute 61 percent of its revenue, while 88 percent, mainly small, micro and medium enterprises, generate 13 percent.<\/p>\n<p>BCX would review or exit its contracts with these low-margin clients.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Connexion would not sign new clients below profitability thresholds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}