{"id":1920,"date":"2017-06-29T09:43:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2017-06-29T09:43:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:43:56","slug":"90-per-cent-uk-start-ups-anticipating-strong-sales-growth-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/90-per-cent-uk-start-ups-anticipating-strong-sales-growth-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"90 per cent of UK start-ups anticipating strong sales growth next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 90 per cent of the UK\u2019s start-up businesses are anticipating strong sales growth over the next year, a new study suggests.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The research, which was carried out by the Government-backed Start Up Loans Company in recent weeks, found that business confidence appears to be remarkably strong amongst Britain\u2019s very youngest businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The survey quizzed a total of 630 business that are currently less than a year old.<\/p>\n<p>It found that almost half (47 per cent) of business owners running companies that have been set up within the last 12 months are anticipating \u2018double-digit\u2019 growth by mid-2018.<\/p>\n<p>A further quarter of such businesses added that they are expecting their sales to swell by at least 25 per cent over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting, Tim Sawyer, CEO of the Start Up Loans Company, said: \u201cIt\u2019s not surprising to see the business community at large pause for thought, given the political uncertainty of recent weeks, but our own research shows that founders of start-ups are a resilient breed and their own ambitions remain almost entirely unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course there are challenges, but when you\u2019re determined to start and grow a business, nothing stands in your way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 90 per cent of the UK\u2019s start-up businesses are anticipating strong sales growth over the next year, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}