You are here: silicon.com > Management > SME Director

Excite offers support for European SMEs

By Sarah Left

Published: 17 December 1999 17:42 GMT

Excite has launched online support centres for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in France, Germany and the UK.

The sites include free email and Web space, legal and regulatory information, job listings, business travel bookings, and access to customised business news.

Sponsorship for the centres is being provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP). Frederic Leenhardt, marketing manager for HP Europe, said that SMEs want a simple and cost-effective way to compete, and ecommerce fits that requirement perfectly.

"We're trying to equip David against Goliath in the online world," Leenhardt said. "What SMEs need is for the Internet to be made easy."

The Excite Business Centres are located at http://www.excite.co.uk/business_centre .

Add comment

Print story with

Email story

The Diffusion and Efficient Use of Electronic Commerce Among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: An International Three-Industry Study

Government Support for the e-Readiness of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Access to Finance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Managerial Ownership and Firm Performance in German Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

hp Server rp2400 Series: Effective Servers with the Reliability of hp-ux Cost

In silicon.com

Commentary

silicon.com Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes Reader Comments of the Week

Mike Barrett From CIO to consultant: Project manager or salesman? Hard lessons from the coalface…

Latest News

Skype touts biz credentials

Execs trapped by 'glass walls'

Are you paying too much to keep the lights on?

Want a new job? No thanks, say techies

CIO Essentials: MS licensing, Tesco CIO and online shopping

Software licensing costs set to fall

Jobs

Project Data Manager.

SUMMARY Serve a Primary Data Manager with responsibility for managing data management activities for medium sized studies. Possibility for European ...

Data Coordinator Contract Research Organisation.

To generate and review listings using data review tools, for example Integrated Review and SAS. Benefits of the role) Medium sized CRO where all work ...

Product Manager - London, with Travel

Ticketmaster operates in 20 global markets, providing ticket sales, ticket resale services, marketing and distribution through ...

Special Report Focus

CIO50 2008
The silicon.com CIO50 2008 profiles the most influential and innovative tech chiefs in the UK across all industries and organisation size, from the biggest FTSE100 companies to high growth dot-com start ups and the public sector. The list was voted on by the UK CIO community and a panel of experts. Find out more in our latest special report.