Margin Lab

Find the margin your P&L is hiding.

Upload twelve months of P&L. Get your margin bridge, cost gaps and revenue split back in two minutes.

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Food manufacturerRM '000

RM 6.03M of revenue leaves RM 240k of net profit. Everything else is somebody else's.

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4.2ppMedian net margin gain in year one
RM 6MTypical client revenue band
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Why revenue moved

The price, volume and mix split, on a true zero baseline.

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01

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02

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Margin bridge, operating expense against revenue, and the price, volume and mix split.

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A long supermarket checkout queue of heaped trolleys at peak hourRGM 101

Growing broke: why a 10 percent revenue year can be bad news

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26 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
A blank red promotional flag on a shelf that is still completely full

You are paying shoppers who would have bought anyway

7 min readThree shelves of the same product in three sizes, the middle row untouched while the others are picked over

Your medium size is not meant to be bought

8 min readA warehouse worker reaching up to a carton in a wholesale aisle stacked high with plain boxes

Price, volume and mix: the only three ways revenue moves

7 min readThe back-of-house service corridor of a shop: racking, trolleys, crates and cabling

The opex ratio your accountant will not show you

6 min readPrinted financial statements fanned across a desk under a lamp in a factory office at night

Reading a P&L bridge in ninety seconds

4 min readA hand holding a label gun against a shelf edge, a blank price label curling off the roll

When a discount pays for itself

8 min read

We had been reading the same P&L for four years. The mix split took twenty minutes and changed how we price every retail SKU.

Faridah IsmailFinance Director, Teratai Beverages

Your margin gap is probably four points wide.

Peers at RM 6M revenue run a 9.2 percent net margin. Closing half that gap is worth RM 310k a year. The analysis is free and takes one upload.

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