CII Business Confidence Index was released for second quarter of 2010. The responses were collected from 14 business outlook indicators from small business owners. Some of the indicators were capacity utilization, gross sales, new orders, expansion, employment, credit availability, and exports. The business confidence index of overall SMEs including industry and service sectors was found [...]
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Even with increase in costs of raw materials, there had been a growth in exports form the MSMEs in India. According to the study conducted by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), difficult global market and international competition had not limited the growth of the exports. The report revealed that about 42 percent of the [...]
Cyber attacks are the most serious problems faced by many small business all over the world. Data loss was considered as a serious problem by about 67% of small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) in India. Internet is used by small businesses to improve marketing. It was also used to create fruitful partnerships with clients, [...]
According to a study conducted by imediaconnection.com, on current trends in email marketing, almost 89% of customers of SMB were intending to increase their social sharing. Highlights of integration of social media: Emails having at least one social sharing option, generated more than 30% higher CTR than the mails with no option. Emails having at [...]
Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, Inc. has published a new report on how U.S. small and medium businesses (SMBs) are using social media. According to research, nearly 70 percent of U.S small and medium size businesses (SMBs) use social media, nearly double the number two years ago. Also report states 30% of small businesses and [...]
EU SMEs and Subcontracting
Dec 27
Recently a research was conducted by EIM Business & Policy Research (the Netherlands) and Ikei Research and Consultancy (Spain) in co-operation with local partners of the European Network for Social and Economic Research (ENSR) on “EU SMEs and Subcontracting” This study was conducted based on the following definition: subcontracting occurs when one enterprise (the contractor [...]
As per the NPD Group’s SMB Technology Report which is a leading market research company, small and medium sized businesses in US are expected to spend more on PCs this year when compared with any other major IT hardware category. As per the report, 77 percent of small and medium businesses are planning to spend [...]
A research report was released by SBA office on small businesses performance in second quarter of 2010. Trends in second quarter of 2010: There was a growth in Real Gross Domestic Product for the fourth consecutive quarter. There was an increase in private fixed investment in both residential and non-residential and also exports. There was [...]
As per new EU study, the small firms which trade internationally are creating more jobs and are more innovative. Only one in four SMEs participated in exporting for the past 3 years which prompted the European Commission to promote internationalisation in the upcoming innovation strategy. The small firms which are internationally active businesses reported growth [...]
The activities of Obama’s administration have started to give positive results. This has made a great impact on the Big Banks to lend credit to small businesses. Especially, the pressure on banks is changing the mind set of Big banks. Today, big banks are interested in lending to small businesses. Big banks like Bank of [...]