Micro Business and Banking

Micro businesses with no employees, or between one and nine employees, accounted for 94.6% of all UK businesses in 2001, 29% of employment and 21.2% of turnover.

Approximately 3.1 million people were self-employed in 2002, according to Social Trends 33, 2003. An additional 1.35 million people have some income, or losses, from self-employment. Self-employed men outnumber women by nearly three to one. The proportion of self-employed in the working population has fallen since 1987.

Around 20% of the UK’s self-employed work in the construction industry. Between 13% and 14% are involved in diverse business activities, around 7% work in recreation, culture and sport, and a further 7% in health and social work.

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Women of all procurement section of the Chengdu earthquake are not held as scheduled

10 o’clock yesterday morning, China shoes capital of the International Department of the Na Liu is busy to Italy A shoe company contact, telephone, email, fax. As busy and 9 colleagues, they will give thousands of domestic and foreign Shoes Key enterprises and institutions to send an invitation?? To invite them to be held in Chengdu, capital of China’s shoes? Third international procurement section.

5? 12 Wenchuan earthquake, Chengdu shoe firms should rush to production, and took the loss, all the shoe companies now have to resume production, Earthquake will not affect the company’s international Order , Third International procurement section will also be held as scheduled in October.

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