MARKET RESEARCH – Project Business Finance

We are looking for business people to take part in an interview either in their offices or in London for 1 hour about financial services for businesses.

We are specifically looking for people in the transport industry, manufacturing industry and wholesale industry

Please answer the questions below.

Name:

Telephone number:

Home Postcode:

Work Postcode:

Age:

Occupation:

Job Title:

Industry sector:

Occupation of chief income earner in the household:

Working status i.e. Student, Full time working, part time working, etc.

Which of the following best describes your business?

• Stand-alone business
• Part of a group of companies
• Subsidiary of an international business
• Independent franchise

Which of the following best describes your business turnover?

• Under £100k
• £100k-£500k
• £500k-£1m
• £1m-£2m
• £2m-£5m
• £5-£10m
• Over £10m

Which of the following best describes your business in the last 12 months?

• Highly profitable
• Quite profitable
• Marginally profitable
• Loss making

How many employees are there in your business?

How long ago was the business established?

Which of the following do you use for your business for finances and accounting?

• An accountant
• Software based accountancy systems
• Online accountancy systems
• None of the above

Which of the following does your business use?

• Bank overdraft
• Bank loan
• Commercial mortgage
• Business credit cards
• Loan from directors/friends/families
• Equity from directors/friends/families
• Leasing/HP or vehicle finance
• Invoice finance/factoring
• Export/import finance such as doc credits
• Venture capital
• Peer to peer lending
• Business angels
• Mezzanine finance
• Non-banking lending
• Grants
• None of the above

How much do you agree with the following statement?

“As a business, we are comfortable using or prepared to use external finance to help the business grow and develop”

Please tell us the company name and the company website

Please forward this on to anyone you know who may be interested.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to reply to all emails or phone messages.   We receive lots of responses to researches that are emailed out. You will be contacted by phone if your application is successful. However, we apologise if you do not hear from us, but please keep trying for future projects that are sent out.

We look forward to hearing from you.
 
Kind regards,
 
 
Daliah Salem
trend MARKET RESEARCH LTD