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Small firms sign up for 2012 dates

Up to 18,000 companies have signed up to a business "dating agency" aimed at matching them to contracts linked with the London 2012 Olympics, it was announced today.

Some 67 per cent are based outside London and 78 per cent have fewer than 50 employees, according to the London 2012 business engagement figures.

Up to a fifth of London 2012 supply chain opportunities are expected to go through the agency, known as the CompeteFor system, which is co-funded by regional development agencies.

More than 70 per cent of the 650 companies that have already won over £2 billion worth of work supplying the Olympic Delivery Authority are smaller companies.

ODA chairman John Armitt said: "These figures show smaller businesses are making the running and getting the biggest benefit so far."

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