Eighty-one percent of small U.S. companies surveyed by Veem, a global payments network, expect the new coronavirus pandemic to affect their business over the next 12-16 months, and nearly 90% are bracing for an economic slowdown, the company said Monday.
A woman waits in front of a closed and shuttered storefront amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S., May 4, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
The Small Business Administration has so far approved more than 2.5 million loans totaling $536 billion, it said Friday. “When you look at the data, there’s surprising resiliency with these small and mid-sized businesses. Despite all the uncertainty, they’re trying to make changes in their businesses, to ... either benefit from the situation or repurpose their business so that they’re not as badly impacted.”
More than half of the companies reported moderate to high supply-chain disruptions as a result of factory shutdowns, border restrictions and industry-wide furloughs, and more than one third said they were now setting up regional supply chains or rapidly pivoting their supply chain to make needed supplies.
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