Despite increasing their sales and employment levels, more than three out of four Connecticut manufacturers rated the state’s economic conditions as fair or poor, according to a survey study released Tuesday by the Manufacturing Alliance of Connecticut.
Only 22 percent of the more than 200 industry leaders surveyed said Connecticut’s economic conditions were good, although that is an increase from the 17 percent who said the same thing in last year’s survey.
In the survey, 77 percent of respondents said they had sales greater or equal to the previous year, and 51 percent said they had higher employment levels since last year. About one third took advantage of state incentive hiring programs.
The survey was conducted from Feb. 15 to March 13, relying on manufacturing and business organizations from across the state, including ConnStep, the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, the Connecticut Tooling & Machining Association, the New Haven Manufacturers’ Association, and the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce.
