Energy is the second biggest risk to medium-sized businesses, says npower
Medium-sized businesses see energy as their second highest area of risk and 44% feel that current business energy products don't meet their needs, according to research by npower Business.
Medium-sized businesses feel neglected by energy industry. Image by Wolfgang Lonien via Flickr
According to npower’s research, medium-sized businesses see energy as a greater area of risk for their business than cash flow, legislation and security; only sales was seen as posing a greater threat.
More than 90% of those businesses polled said that they wanted tools to help them take control of their energy buying.
This comes in the wake of the CBI’s Future Champions report, which said that larger companies should be offering more support to medium-sized businesses. The report suggested that to boost medium-sized businesses which aren't growing or are growing at a slow rate, the CBI and the government should encourage larger firms to support their supply chain and share best practice.
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