SMEs lose 4m trading days to strikes in six months A study by small business lender iwoca reveals a third of SMEs said industrial action was having a negative impact on their business with around four million days of trading said to be lost over the last six months. Colin Goldstein, commercial director at iwoca said: “If you're one of the UK's 5.5m small businesses, you now have to contend with lost trading days due to strikes as well as rising cost of doing business, including spiralling energy costs and inflation – all resulting in an incredibly ttough trading environment.” Motorsport businesses will have been adversely affcted by he strikes.