Well not the very small firm yet, I would say.

"At a small firm that is growing, it really takes a lot of time and energy."

In the first six months of this year nearly 30,000 small firms went to the wall - a third up on 1991.

His was a small firm, but a man working in research and development needs strange stuff sometimes.

And many more smaller firms around the nation have gone under.

What are the advantages of using a large over a small firm?

"There are so many small firms all working on the same thing," he said.

That, she said, would be a far greater threat to small firms.

A lot of smaller firms don't want to be involved in all that.

This may be a city (in the case of small firms), state or country.