Helping small businesses grow
Small Aand medium-sized businesses are looking to the future with renewed optimism as indicators begin to show that 2010 could be a turnaround year.
So right across the country you now find determined small and medium-sized companies intent on growth.
Capital Enterprise Centres (CEC), which runs the Milton Keynes Business Centre at Linford Wood, reports an encouraging number of new company start-ups as well as the steady expansion of existing companies.
CEC operations director David Clapham has been impressed by the enthusiasm of the companies operating from its network of business centres across London and the South East. He said: "It's good to see so much new business activity and across such a wide range of sectors including professional services, leisure, health and recreation, light manufacturing and service industries.
"Companies are very realistic in their ambitions, with their growth plans drawn up in tough times. Change does genuinely bring opportunities and it's the innovative and flexible enterprises that are doing well."
CEC believes that smaller businesses need to focus their efforts on business development and that this accounts for the popularity of its business centres, which free up company management from having to deal with time consuming property issues.
David added: "Under pressure businesses prefer not to have to deal with routine but essential matters such as property maintenance, waste disposal and telecommunications. What we do is set businesses free from worries of this kind with everything covered by a monthly fee.
"All offices, studios and workshops are taken on a monthly basis under a simple licence with no long term commitment. This gives businesses the chance to keep their options open and to increase or decrease the amount of space taken in line with business requirements."
CEC believes that for growing companies it is a big plus to be able to expand operations while staying at the same location. As a result the company says it regularly sees new start-ups and small businesses expanding.
Often the largest business at a CEC Centre will originally have moved there as a start-up or small business.
>> For more details on the Milton Keynes Business Centre at Linford Wood call centre manager Lynn Patey-Smith on 01908 698700 or view www.capitalspace.co.uk
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