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How Are Your Customers Doing?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

This company was fortunate to avoid significant bad debt loss until Ames Department Stores, Kmart, and Fleming Foods (a distributor) all filed bankruptcy within the same year. Bad debt losses were understandably huge. Making uninterrupted sales was deemed more important to their distribution network.

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Get Ready for a Wave of Commercial Bankruptcies

Your Virtual Credit Manager

After, the Great Recession of 2008, commercial bankruptcies peaked in 2009 and did not drop below pre-recession levels until 2012. Clearly, the level of Business Credit Risk is going to remain elevated as we move through 2024, bringing with it the potential for corresponding increases in bad debt and delinquency.