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Now, with competitors including some large enterprises joining the field of intranet security in quick succession, it has become a market where the company has heavy competition. However, armed with the technological strength that has come from pioneering work in this field, and the detailed manner of dealing with clients that it is capable of as a result of being an SME, Cyber Solutions Inc. will continue to run at the forefront of the market, ranking together with its larger counterparts.例文帳に追加

現在では、大企業も含め、競合企業が次々とイントラネットのセキュリティの分野に参入し、同社は追われる立場となったが、この分野に先行して取り組んできたことによる技術的な強みと、中小企業だからこそ実現できる顧客に対するきめ細かな対応を武器に、同社は大企業と伍しながら最前線を走り続けている。 - 経済産業省

As I said recently, I served as Parliamentary Vice-Minister for the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), which was responsible for SMEs, 21 years ago for a period of one year and three months. Take, for example, a micro-enterprise whose business customer suddenly went under at the end of a year, leaving the micro-enterprise with no prospect of receiving hundreds of thousands of yen that would otherwise have come from the customer. As the company has to pay bonuses to its employees, those are very important monies – as an example like this implies, it is after all necessary for small businesses to have recourse to the small, unsecured, unguaranteed loans that are at issue here.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

私はこの前申し上げたように、21年前、中小企業担当の通産省（現経済産業省）の政務次官を1年3カ月しておりまして、確かに私は中小企業の町、北九州出身でございますから、零細企業の取引先が年末に急に倒産し、入ってくるはずの何十万の金が入ってこない。そうすると、どうしてもやはりボーナスを払わなければいけないから、企業にとっては非常に大事なお金でございまして、そういったときにこういった少額、無担保、無保証というお金が零細企業にやはり必要なのですよ。 - 金融庁