Participation of alternative markets in small company exports rises
According to a research made by the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service, the participation of non-traditional destinations in the shipments by micro sized companies went from 8% in 1998, to 12.4% in 2004. In the case of the small sized companies, the percentage increased from 7.5% to 11.2% in the same period. Of the 681 Brazilian companies that started exporting last year, 345 were small sized.
