2. Agenda
SMEs in Canada
◦ How many? Which sectors? Size? Where?
Profiling SME decision-makers
Media habits
◦ SMEs vs. population
◦ Quebec
◦ Key industry sectors
Conclusions
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5. Top SME sectors
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140
Retail
Other services
Construction
Professional, etc. services
Admin services
Health services
Foodservice
Wholesale & Importing
Manufacturing
Agriculture
Transportation & warehousing
Canadian Business Register (K) 2012
excl Indeterminate
1 to 4 5 to 99 100+
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SOURCE: Statistics Canada
6. SME $ segments
• $10M to $49M
• 6% of SMEs
Medium
• $1M to $9M
• 37% of SMEs
Small
• Under $1M
• 57% of SMEs
Micro
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SOURCE: InfoCanada, 2012
7. Micro & Small by region
0
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
300,000
350,000
BC AB MB/SK ON QC Atlantic
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SOURCE: InfoCanada, 2012
9. SME decision-makers profile
Approx 1.4 million Canadians
◦ Approx 70% of all biz decision-makers in Canada
72% Male
Ages 35 to 64
Post-secondary grads (tech, university)
Professionals, managers, technical & sales
A lot of in-town driving
◦ Half drive 150+ km/wk
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SOURCE: PMB, 2013
11. Print Measurement Bureau
Semi-annual surveys of 5K+ Canadians
◦ Combined P2Y to get maximum & recent #’s
◦ Over 20K Canadian adults
Wide range of consumer media habits
“Buildings don’t buy; People buy”
◦ Old saying in B2B marketing
◦ Saatchi story
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12. SME Media habits
Heavy Radio
◦ All News, All Sports, Talk/Info
◦ Album/Classic Rock, Modern/Alternative Rock
Heavy Newspaper & Magazines
◦ Particularly English Canada
Medium-Heavy Internet
◦ Particularly Mobile
◦ Particularly English Canada
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SOURCE: PMB, 2013
13. Magazines
Business & Finance Magazines
◦ Canadian Business, FP, MoneySense, Profit, ROB, Les Affaires, a+
Maclean’s
Other topical
◦ CAA , Westworld, enRoute, VIA Destinations
◦ Golf Canada, Hockey News
◦ Cottage Life, Outdoor Canada, Revue Espaces, Food & Drink
◦ Cdn Home Workshop, Cdn House & Home, Western Living
◦ Toronto Life, NOW, Vancouver, BC
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SOURCE: PMB, 2013
14. Internet – particularly Mobile
58% access Internet ONLY via Mobile devices
Use wide range of websites
Radio Auction Automotive
Email Entertainment Gambling
Home improvement Investing Maps
News Classified Real estate
Search engines Sports Phone directory
Weather Magazine Newspaper
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SOURCE: PMB, 2013
15. Other media
Medium to Light TV
◦ But heavy Business news and VOD
◦ Also SciFi/Fantasy
Low transit usage (15% past mo)
◦ Outside buses/shelters
◦ Billboards
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SOURCE: PMB, 2013
16. QC/French SME
SME less developed in QC vs. pop’n #
◦ Fewer SME’s/capita, lower start-up rate
◦ Lower % of population are SME decision-makers
QC SME’s are:
◦ Heavier users of Radio, Mobile Internet
◦ Medium/Light TV viewers
◦ Somewhat (not significantly) heavier users of Magazines, Internet
◦ Recent study shows Internet usage in QC is 7 points lower vs. ROC
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SOURCE: PMB, BBM, 2013
18. SME media by Industry Sector
Compared to typical SME Decision-maker:
◦ Retail
◦ Most female (43%) and QC (41%)
◦ Construction
◦ Less educated, more “blue collar” occupations
◦ Business services
◦ Highest education
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SOURCE: PMB, 2013
19. Retail SME
Heavy Magazine
◦ Women’s; Sub-sectors (sports, fashion)
Light/Medium Newspaper
◦ Heavy French/Montreal
Medium Internet
◦ Heavy Fashion/Beauty, Food/Recipe, Home improvement
Light TV
◦ Heavy Fashion/Beauty, Family drama/Soaps, Game shows
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SOURCE: PMB, 2013
20. Construction SME
Light/medium Magazine
◦ Heavy Cottage Life, Cdn Home Workshop, Golf Canada
Light/medium Internet & Newspaper
Light Radio
◦ Heavy News/Talk, Country, Modern/Alt rock
TV:
◦ English = heavy; French = light
◦ Heavy Home Improvement shows
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SOURCE: PMB, 2013
21. B2B services SME
Heavy Internet
◦ Particularly via Mobile
◦ Beauty/Fashion, Career/Job, Health, Investments, News, Dating, Search, Sports,
Magazine, Newspaper, Radio, TV
Medium/Heavy Newspaper
Medium/Light TV
◦ Heavy Business, Arts
Medium Radio
◦ Heavy Business, Sports, Talk/Info, Arts, Oldies/Retro Rock
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SOURCE: PMB, 2013
23. Summary
NO silver bullet ... One media channel alone likely not sufficient
Any media needs to be mobile/web enabled
News (particularly Business) in all media
Automobile drives Radio, Mobile
◦ Can drive other OOH
Occupation & demographics drive media use
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25. 25
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140
Agriculture
Natural resources
Utilities
Construction
Manufacturing
Wholesale & Importing
Retail
Transportation & warehousing
Information
Finance, insurance
Real Estate & Leasing
Professional, etc. services
Holding co's
Admin services
Waste mgmt
Education
Health services
Arts & entertainment/Recreation
Accommodation
Foodservice
Other services
Public administration
Canadian Business Register (K co's) 2012
excl Indeterminate
1 to 4 5 to 99 100+
26. Micro & Small
by NAICS & Province ... 1
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BASE: In biz pre-2011, up to $10M sales,
up to 49 employees
BC AB MB/SK ON QC Atlantic
TOTALS 121,686 104,840 52,126 310,480 181,953 54,578
Primary (NAICS 10 series) 1,528 1,458 1,299 2,096 1,752 710
Resources (NAICS 21) 509 1,654 774 551 321 134
Utilities (NAICS 22) 136 170 60 226 81 36
Construction (NAICS 23) 13,843 17,143 6,019 34,752 19,549 6,144
Manufacturing (NAICS 31 – 33) 8,782 6,790 3,431 23,832 15,894 3,308
Wholesale (NAICS 42) 11,543 10,716 5,630 29,389 19,045 4,900
Retail (NAICS 44-45) 29,149 23,026 12,338 74,425 41,248 14,724
Transport/warehousing (NAICS 48-49) 4,364 4,216 2,364 9,463 5,635 2,103
Info & Cultural (NAICS 51) 2,826 1,981 1,013 5,901 3,618 881
SOURCE: InfoCanada, 2012
27. Micro & Small
by NAICS & Province ... 2
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BASE: In biz pre-2011, up to $10M sales, up
to 49 employees
BC AB MB/SK ON QC Atlantic
TOTALS 121,686 104,840 52,126 310,480 181,953 54,578
Finance & Insurance (NAICS 52) 4,583 3,966 2,332 12,115 5,246 2,052
Real estate, rental & leasing (NAICS 53) 6,205 5,473 2,253 15,115 6,944 2,629
Professional, scientific & tech services (NAICS
54)
14,457 11,977 4,895 36,705 20,569 5,198
Admin, support & waste management (NAICS
56)
6,851 5,801 2,577 17,196 9,170 2,614
Education, Health (NAICS 61-62) 11,803 8,577 5,324 32,579 18,134 5,750
Arts & recreation (NAICS 71) 3,969 3,425 2,753 8,594 5,811 2,031
Accommodation & Foodservice (NAICS 72) 12,378 8,998 4,710 27,014 17,562 5,523
Other services (exc public) (NAICS 81) 14,163 12,051 6,776 39,853 25,450 7,756
Public admin (NAICS 91-92) 141 100 138 250 179 109
SOURCE: InfoCanada, 2012
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Editor's Notes
Hi, I’m Gray Hammond of BRANDwright.
This is a webinar that Visa asked us to prepare for their clients in July.
Some figures > 2 million
Indeterminate > 50% of CDN co’s
Not incorporated; No registered employees; Many <$30K sales/yr (HST floor)
Include home/hobby, part-time, temporary (“consultants” between jobs)
140K biz/year churn comes largely from Indeterminate
Only 1.1 million “real” businesses (excl Indeterminate)
http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=5510003&paSer=&pattern=&stByVal=1&p1=1&p2=31&tabMode=dataTable&csid=
Excludes Indeterminate; shows sectors with 50K+ biz’s
K’s of biz’s by # employees
NAICS codes
SOURCE: Canadian Business Register
Some Visa research we’ve done has excluded Medium
SOURCE: InfoCanada
FP500’s Next 300 goes below $100M; D&B GTA Top 1K goes down to $50M
BASE: In biz pre-2011, up to $10M sales, up to 49 employees (Visa definition)
Not surprisingly, SME distribution closely matches population
Although SME development lower in QC (noted by many sources, including BDC)
SOURCE: InfoCanada
Adults 18+ who make business purchasing/leasing decisions, at private-sector companies <$50 million revenues
Profile also matches past Visa surveys
Age indicates they have 10+ years career experience
SOURCE: PMB
Provided by MAGI Communications
Reaching people where they live (vs. where they work)
When Saatchi brothers started their ad agency, they invested ¼ of their capital (£6K) into 2-page spread in Sunday Times to reach Managing Directors of large co’s
Throughout this report, highlight index (target % vs. total %) 120+ (significant)
In this section: compare SME Decision-makers vs. All Canadian Adults
Long time in car drives Radio use
Age (Boomers) drives music tastes
Education drives print
English usage of Internet tends to be heavier than French overall
Predominance of English sites on web
Magazines are insight to people’s interests, psychographics
Drivers: CAA, Westworld (Prairie/West version)
EnRoute always indexes high among Biz targets; VIA on-board magazine indicates high rail travel ON-QC
Revue Espaces = French Outdoor Canada
Local news & events magazines important
Whichever sites you choose, they must be mobile-enabled
Choose traditional media with online/mobile properties
While range of sites is wide, they come back to cars/travel, news, business/finance, key media
BDC done several studies comparing SME in QC vs. ROC
Compares QC SME decision-makers vs. QC population – similar patterns per ROC
Radio, Mobile, TV
Internet study by BBM Analytics: http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Quebec-Lags-Canada-PC-Use/1009901
Internet largely English; QC biz owners/managers likely to be bilingual
3 major SME sectors covered by PMB: Construction, Retail, and B2B Services
This section compares these sectors’ decision-makers vs. All/typical SME Decision-makers (not adult pop’n)
Women drive media in Retail sector
Magazine & Internet could be driven by sub-sector within Retail
Lower education drives down Print
Male & blue collar drives Radio
Industry sector drives Magazine & TV
Biz services = sum of:
Communication/Information Systems
Advertising/Media/Film
Banking/Finance/Insurance
Accounting/Law/Management Consultants
Engineering/Research/Development
Media selected have to have associated web properties, particularly mobile-enabled. SME decision-makers are highly likely to use mobile device to access info.
Even for less-used media, News programs (particularly Biz news) show high usage
Cannot overstate importance of in-town Driving. Half drive 150+ km/wk; only 15% use transit/mo.
Explains high Radio use; could explain high Mobile use
Raises possibilities in OOH media (billboards, external transit)
Shows Employee #’s (NOT Sales $)
Categorized by NAICS
BASE: In biz pre-2011, up to $10M sales, up to 49 employees (Visa definition)
SOURCE: InfoCanada
BASE: In biz pre-2011, up to $10M sales, up to 49 employees (Visa definition)
SOURCE: InfoCanada