Small businesses across the UK, Republic of Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic have thrown off their austerity shackles and are forecasting growth over the next two years, a report has found.
According to the Vodafone SME Digitisation Report, which surveyed 1,736 small business owners across six European nations, 80pc said that they were confident that their businesses would grow in 2014 and 2015.
