Business Secretary Vince Cable will formally launch the Government's flagship £2.5 billion business growth fund (BGF) today as part of efforts to stimulate lending to small…
Interested in tablets, but are a BlackBerry fan instead of Apple? Well, the 7 inch Blackberry PlayBook has finally been unveiled for all users around the…
Coalition policy is failing to deliver the public sector innovation that could dramatically boost value for money and benefit the economy beyond the public sector, argues…
The £1 shop lease. Entrepreneur Austen Pickles is taking advantage of rock bottom commercial property prices to expand his Bradford-based tailoring business by setting up ‘pop…
Mary Portas, one of the UKs leading retail experts and host of TV's Queen of Shops, has been appointed to lead an independent review into the…
North East small firms have chance to apply for funding: Small firms have been given the chance to claim a slice of £1m to boost their…
Metro, the free urban national newspaper, has launched Venture Candy 2011 to find the businesses and entrepreneurs of the future.
The 2011 bfa HSBC Franchisee of the Year Awards are now open for entries, with top franchisors urged to nominate their most enterprising franchisees. The Awards…
Making employment law more flexible so that it works in the interests of businesses as well as workers is a major component of our new Get…
UK SMEs could be facing a fresh wave of challenges as business failures are more prevalent when coming out of a recession when access to and…
Few SMEs would dispute that managing and administering payroll is one of those necessary headaches that smaller enterprises have to endure; only the big beasts –…
A loathsome show, a panto villain host and an insult to business: This is how one of the UKs leading business investors, and the ex head…
Lord Heseltine has kicked off a series of road shows today to promote the second round of the Regional Growth Fund and encourage bidders to compete…
The drive to boost local economic growth was stepped up today with Business Minister Mark Prisk announcing a package of measures to help local enterprise partnerships…
The seventh series of The Apprentice (BBC One) began last night, and the main news to report is that the title is now completely meaningless. The…