Companies fear the energy crisis and rising prices
The price increase generated by the war situation and extreme uncertainty shocks consumers who purchase energy from the competitive market; to this is added the effect of the product structure transforming in order to manage the increased costs and risks.
In the contract offers, the customers encounter a completely changed parameter system and construction, in which the elements are roughly the same as before, but contain a stricter set of conditions than before, says Márton Széffy, the deputy general manager of sales responsible for the retail operations of the MET Group in Hungary, who, according to the the business model of the vast majority of the companies involved is probably not prepared for a sixfold increase in overheads, which already foreshadows the possibility of a wave of bankruptcy.
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