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Small Business Saturday 2014: Nick Clegg message

皇冠体育app Deputy Prime Minister encourages people to support Small Business Saturday on 6 December 2014.

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Nick Clegg said:

Forget Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This we get to celebrate and show our support for Britain鈥檚 5.2 million small and medium-sized businesses. Make sure you get involved.

Whether it鈥檚 a local manufacturer, builder, florist, jeweller or bookshop, all of these companies keep our local communities going: creating jobs, driving growth and ensuring our high streets survive and succeed.

Together, they are working to seal the deal on Britain鈥檚 recovery. In government, we are giving them all the help we can, with greater business support, access to finance and competitive taxes to help them thrive, and we now have hundreds of thousands more small and medium enterprises operating in the UK than in 2010.

Your custom matters to them more than ever. Last year, Small Business Saturday generated around 拢468 million. Together, we can top that. 皇冠体育appre are special events taking part all over the country 鈥� backed by cross party support and organisations like the Federation of Small Businesses, Young Enterprise, 皇冠体育app Prince鈥檚 Trust and others.

So, good luck to all of the UK businesses throwing open their doors on Small Business Saturday and every success for the future.

On Saturday 6 December when you are shopping for Christmas or something you need - choose small, choose local.

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Published 5 December 2014