Women and Business Start Up

During the period January to March 2006 the number of businesses ceasing to trade increased by 50% as reported by Barclays Bank.

However, the surprising data reported showed an increase in the number of start-up businesses during that period. The percentage increase in the number of new businesses was 24% and totalled 110300, the second highest quarter number of registrations since the banked reported such data in 1988.

Women entrepreneurs influenced the figures significantly with the number of new women business owners increasing by 23% over the corresponding quarter twelve months earlier.

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