Information, Trends, News and Events on SMBs
Trade credit is lending credit to customers which is linked to sales of product. It is very important in small business finance. In this small companies either lend credit to their customers or use the …
Trade Credit Rate in U.S Falls Due to Recession Read MoreAs per the survey conducted by Forward3D, 64% of SMEs, despite having their own company website, are not promoting it. The survey was conducted on 500 SMEs, which involved face to face interview with each …
SMEs Not Interested in Promoting Their Websites: Read MoreAccording to U.S Small Business Administration, half the total number of SMBs are closing down their businesses due to recession. It is a well known fact that, 99.9% of total 30 million companies present in …
Poor Planning Hits SMBs Very Hard During Recession Read MoreThe study, “An Analysis of Small Business Patents by Industry and Firm Size” examines small business patent activity. It found that small firms showed significant innovation and patent activity. Patents per employee is higher in …
Patent Activity More in Small Businesses: Read MoreU non-financial business economy, consists of 20 million enterprises, of which about 99.8 % are SMEs (firms having less than 250 employed persons), of these SMEs, 92% are micro enterprises (having less than 10 employees). …
Micro Firms Contribute to about Majority of SMEs in U.K Read MoreThe EFG scheme was iintroduced by UK government to provide backing of bank loans for small businesses. It was introduced in January 2009, in wake of banking crisis, so as to stimulate lending to small …
EFG Scheme by UK Government Fails to Provide Credit to SMBs Read MoreThe BBA is planning to create a new task force which will examine the lack of lending to small businesses by banks in UK. This task force will include industry experts from six largest banks …
BBA Plans a Task Force to Improve Lending practices to Businesses in UK Read MoreIn the present situation where the economic outlook is uncertain, small business are in dilemma whether to hire employees or not. And that too, the holiday season is approaching it would be a loss to …
Small Businesses More Likely to Hire Part Timers Read MoreAs per the Powering Small Business Britain report from PayPoint.net, views of small businesses on online trading are as follows: Majority of the SMEs, around 57% of them feel that getting the customers to see …
Views of small businesses on online trading Read MoreProfitability of an enterprise was seen to be affected positively by labor productivity and negatively by labor costs per employee. The profitability of the total EU non finacial business economy is 30% of value added. …
SMEs in U.K Find Difficulty in Getting Access to Finance Read More