# Small Firms

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# surprise

Business owners are not happy about the new minimum wage

The wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour last week.

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Jan 4th 2016, 6:10 AM

# Stay Classy

Shouldn't you be at school, SMEs? How a lack of training is letting down business

Poll: What’s the best way to learn about running a business, in class or the school of hard knocks?

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Sep 29th 2014, 8:00 AM

# Firm Proposals

Small firms want to be "back on a level playing field"

Chambers Ireland says it wants a reduction of marginal tax rates.

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Jul 14th 2014, 8:52 AM

# Confidence

How are small businesses feeling about the next few months?

Pretty good, a survey reveals, with 48 per cent expecting the overall business environment to be ‘good’ or ‘very good’.

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Jun 10th 2014, 7:30 AM

# RBS

Ulster Bank parent company 'forced small firms to default'

A report by the British government has alleged that Royal Bank of Scotland hit healthy businesses with charges and rates that forced them to close allowing bank to seize their assets at a lower price.

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Nov 25th 2013, 9:00 PM

# Finance

'The banks are not lending' belief is stopping SMEs applying for loans

The latest report by the ESRI says accessing finance is the third most reported problem facing small businesses in Ireland.

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May 16th 2013, 4:05 PM

# SFA

Three months on and small firms feel more confident about business

Results also show that 30 per cent of respondents rate the current overall business environment as ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’.

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Apr 29th 2013, 9:27 AM

# Money Money Money

Small firms being 'strangled' by late payments - SFA

Companies are now waiting an average of 62 days to be paid, according to a survey by the Small Firms Association.

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Jan 7th 2013, 6:45 AM

# Small Firms

€3.78 million funding to small businesses to 'create and sustain 550 jobs'

A number of County and City Enterprise Boards have been granted additional funding to meet demand.

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Nov 19th 2012, 1:14 PM

# Recession

Over half of loan applications refused by bailed-out banks, says ISME

The quarterly bank survey has prompted an angry response from the SME sector.

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Jun 18th 2012, 6:30 AM

# In the red

Six firms collapsed each day in the first quarter of this year - report

Half of the 31,070 companies that were stress-tested by a risk analyst firm in the first quarter of this year were deemed “high risk”.

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Mar 30th 2012, 11:01 AM

# One Year In

TheJournal.ie’s progress report for the Government: SMEs, credit for businesses

Small firms have long complained about the shortage of credit to get them up and running. How has Richard Bruton responded?

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Mar 9th 2012, 2:00 AM

# Red Tape

EU directive will mean less 'red tape' for small business

Finance ministers adopt new rules which will allow each EU member to exempt small businesses from publishing annual accounts.

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Feb 22nd 2012, 2:19 PM

# Business

Small firms "confident" about 2012 outlook

But comprehensive enterprise and a jobs support package is needed to avoid a ‘double-dip’ recession, says the Small Firms Association.

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Dec 30th 2011, 9:30 AM

# Small Firms

Government must do more to help small firms - SFA

Small Firms Association chairman Ian Martin will today identify three areas that government must work on to assist businesses.

250

Sep 27th 2011, 8:56 AM

# Minimum Wage

Small Firms Association criticises coalition proposal to reverse minimum wage cut

The SFA is cautiously welcoming the programme for government which is its says is “good and bad for small firms”.

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Mar 7th 2011, 1:57 PM

# Small Firms

Confidence of small firms up in third quarter

Confidence among small firms picked up between July and September – but access to credit remains a problem.

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Oct 18th 2010, 9:41 AM