The cost of collecting information to search for suppliers only occurred in one case company; it was a fixed fee paid to an agent and accounted for 14 per cent of the total set up cost. This cost occurred in 11 survey respondent companies. It represented 4-14 per cent of the set up cost in ten of the 11 companies. Company 16 appears to be an outlier, where this cost represented 60 per cent of the total set up cost.