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.
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The ATO realises the importance of this and have developed a list of benchmarks to help.
- 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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