Showing posts with label mapping the small business export market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mapping the small business export market. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Only 1 in 5 UK SMEs Export

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Is it surprising that according to UK-based CBI, only one in five UK SMEs exports
This is especially surprising if you add the additional statistic that businesses are 11% more likely to survive if they do so. Then, when you mix in research from the government's UK Trade & Investment body which states that exporting SMEs are 34% more productive in their first year than those SMEs who do not, you wonder why UK businesses remain so internationally reticent.
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