Some facts on Customer Profitability from


Unity Solutions works with you to increase your Customer Profitability and competitive advantage by using information on and from your customers.

Everything is based on:

It is common to find:

  • 5-15% of all customers generating 100% of net profit

  • 50-60% of all customers being unprofitable

  • Profitable customers accounting for 70-90% of sales

  • Unprofitable customers accounting for 35-45% of activity costs

  • Unprofitable customers consuming 25-55% of total resources

  • 25-45% of customers consuming 12-28% of resources
    - and accounting for only
    1 - 5% of sales

  • More resources consumed by very small unprofitable customers than all profitable customers combined