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never too small to join the party.(on small and medium enterprises in the UK)

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Byline: Martin Desaulles

never too small to join the party

According to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (the DTI in old money), at the start of 2007 there were 4.7 million companies in the UK, an increase of 212,000 on 2006. These companies employed 22.7 million people and had a total turnover of [pounds sterling]2.8 trillion.

So which companies are powering the engine of UK plc? Tesco, Barclays, BP, BT, BA? Certainly these large enterprises play a significant part in the private sector but what about their smaller cousins, the

so-called small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs: businesses with fewer than ...

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