New SBS program Small Busine Secrets- Australian businees overcoming the odds and finding succe

New SBS program Small Business Secrets- Australian businesses overcoming the odds and finding success

Thursday 7 July, 2016

News Release

New SBS program Small Business Secrets- Australian businesses overcoming the odds and finding success

Hosted by Ricardo Goncalves each week from Sunday 31 July on SBS

Small Business Secrets is a new weekly SBS program shining a light on the small business owners and innovators playing a vital role in Australia's economic growth.

Hosted by SBS Finance Editor and World News presenter Ricardo Goncalves and produced by former ABC News and Business Today presenter Whitney Fitzsimmons, the program uses case studies to offer tips and insights into the roller-coaster of conceiving and running a small business in Australia.

Small to medium enterprises make up 97% of Australian businesses, and small business owners - many who come from diverse multicultural backgrounds - were a major target of the recent election campaigns. Small Business Secrets speaks directly to the real people and businesses the politicians have tried to reach.

Each week, it will feature a mix of established businesses offering the secrets to their success, those who have weathered financial storms, and those just starting out. In the process it will reveal how small businesses are fuelling Australia's economy and show how you can turn your business idea into reality.

Small Business Secrets will also be complemented by a new website with tips, clips and articles on developments in the small business world, as well as an interactive Small Business Toolbox' to help you make the most of your developing business. The program will also use social media to distribute business news and tips in innovative ways.

Small Business Secrets will air at 5pm Sundays on SBS starting Sunday July 31.

About Ricardo Goncalves, host:

Ricardo Goncalves is SBS's Finance Editor and a regular SBS World News presenter.

He joined SBS early 2010 after eight years as a business and finance reporter and presenter (as Richard Goncalves) with Sky News Business, where he anchored programs like Trading Day, Rates Reaction, In Business, IT and the popular Market Moves.

He has also worked as a general news reporter for Nine News Melbourne, and produced for Seven News Sydney, starting work in metropolitan media producing for financial journalist David Koch.

He started his career in Wollongong where he grew up, reporting for Win News, while he completed his B Commerce in Marketing and Economics at the University of Wollongong.

His work has seen him interview virtually all of Australia's top 200 CEOs, business leaders and global financial identities. Highlights include interviews with Richard Branson, Malcolm Turnbull, Alan Joyce and former Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva just to name a few.

Ricardo is also a heavy social media user, using Twitter and Snapchat (@BUSINESSricardo) to distribute business and market news in a way few of contemporaries are.

About Whitney Fitzsimons, Executive Producer:

Whitney Fitzsimmons is a producer, journalist and news anchor with over 15 years' experience in international newsrooms, both at CNBC Asia and the ABC.

Prior to joining SBS she spent over a decade at the ABC where for eight years she was the host of Business Today - the ABCs premier international business and financial TV news program where she interviewed CEOs, politicians and newsmakers, such as Sir Richard Branson and Roberto Azevedo, Head of the World Trade Organisation.

While at the ABC Whitney, presented a wide variety of programs including NSW 7pm News, Lateline Business, The Drum, Weekend Breakfast, The Midday Report and The World. She was a senior producer for the ABCs award winning national current affairs program, Lateline and has been a contributor to One Plus One.

She is an accomplished writer filing for ABC news online, The Australian, The Drum, The Hoopla and Women's Agenda. She has also been a reporter for ABC radio current affairs programs, AM, PM and The World Today and an Australian political correspondent for Singapore's Channel News Asia. You can follow her on twitter @whitfitzsimmmons

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