NU Online News Service, Sept. 15, 2003, 1:47 p.m. EDT – Fifty-nine percent of small business owners surveyed say they expect their companies' revenues to increase over the next 12 months, according to survey results released by Wells Fargo & Company, San Francisco.
When researchers from the Gallup Organization, Princeton, N.J., interviewed business owners for Wells Fargo earlier this year, they found that 44% reported an increase in revenue over the past 12 months and 35% reported a decrease.
Seventy-four percent of the owners surveyed predicted that their companies' financial situations would improve in the coming year and 11% predicted that their situations would be worse.
