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Can we really help BME’s with successful businesses?
14th January, 2010
Lord Davies of Abersoch. Minister of State for Trade, Investment and Small Business, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has asked us to come down to London and help with the next move to help target and more importantly engage with BME businesses as he put it:
‘I want to see theestimated 320 thousand ethnic minorities-led Small and Medium Enterprises in the UK grow further, and the estimated £25 billion they
provide to UK economy per year increase.’
Don’t we all. But in real terms what can we do?
Can we really help BME’s with successful businesses?
Entrepreneurs from the BME community are getting more and more commonplace - and rightly so. Should race really be a deciding factor when it comes to great ideas - and great marketing. Could your background and the cultural differences therein make a difference to your entrepreneurial mindset.
With people like James Caan, Imran Hakim and Levi Roots the BME community in the UK now have some great role models.
As Levi Roots of Reggae-Reggae Sauce: quotes
“My hope is to make the community aware that there is good news in the black community…that the black community possesses business people who can be successful.”
Let’s hope that with some more great marketing - we can help the BME community of the UK really make a difference.
We have been asked to go down and see Lord Davies, and he would like us to make a different to the estimated 320 thousand ethnic minorities-led Small and Medium Enterprises in the UK, he wants our help to grow them further, and the estimated £25 billion they provide to UK economy per year increase.
As he says “Black and Minority Enterprise is right at the top of my agenda for what Government is trying to achieve for small businesses and enterprise.”
Let’s see what happens in real terms… We are here to help.
