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SME-Led Growth Long Overdue

23 May 2002

Linking Investment Promotion With SME-Led Growth Long Overdue


Creating a focused agency to attract new investment and encourage more businesses into exporting is an initiative the Chamber has long sought.

“It recognizes that the only way we are going to get a higher level of sustainable growth into the economy is to build a new platform that encourages domestic-focused SMEs to build their futures in the global market,” said Michael Barnett, Chief Executive of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce.

Pumping up Broad-band Internet access across rural NZ is another good tool for SMEs to leverage access into the global market.

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