date:Nov 14, 2012
n 1 and 10 FTE employees have reduced by 22 percent since 2010 and by 53 percent since 2004, showing them to be the least resistant to the effects of a downturn in the economic climate.
Primary and mixed processing units continue to be the most prevalent type of business, but there has been a decrease of 25 percent in the number of primary processing units since 2010.
The survey also looked at the age of businesses and found that there had been far fewer start-up companies in recent times an