Over 10,000 SME owners, self-employed and budding entrepreneurs have applied for a single £25,000 Business Boost grant from insurer Simply Business, as the current economic climate takes a toll on small businesses.
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Cyber skills gap leaves business vulnerable to attacks, new research reveals
ISACA, the global professional association helping individuals and organisations in their pursuit of digital trust, has published new research looking at the state of cybersecurity.
Does your business have the right shape of people to succeed?
Successful execution of a big project such as implementing new technology platforms or a new growth strategy is fundamental in ensuring a business survives.
Better PR for your business’s growth
Contrary to the TV stereotype in Absolutely Fabulous and other cultural spoofs, a PR is far more than the character Edina guzzling bottles of champagne or an obsequious person in a marketing meeting who is thin on good advice and ideas.
Businesses forecast to pay an extra £1.56 billion in rates bills next April
On current predictions, business rates bills look likely to rise by a total of £1.56 billion next April, giving unsustainable rises to all sectors of the economy.
Igne goes live – merging six brands into one to re-shape the pre-construction services industry
In a transformative development for the construction, infrastructure and energy sectors, Igne emerges as a result of the consolidation of industry titans with over 350 years of combined experience
Want to know how to change an entire industry? Ask Guy Fennell, Founder and CEO of Pura
Just three years old, Pura is now knocking household names off the shop shelves and gaining much deserved respect.
Over 80 per cent of firms have changed to accommodate hybrid working
82 per cent of businesses have changed their office space needs to accommodate a flexible working approach which includes more than half of businesses opening offices or working spaces outside of city centres, according to a new survey from IWG.
Stability in SMEs: Why is cultural change key to bridging leader-worker gaps?
With the news that FTSE bosses received an average 16 per cent pay rise last year, relations between senior leaders and employees in the corporate world are becoming increasingly strained.
UK economy grew faster than Germany and France after Covid
UK business leaders have been urged to follow five key tokens of advice before they implement any new artificial intelligence (AI) programmes or technologies within their organisations.
Local pubs deliver invaluable socio-economic value, ministers must act to save them – new report highlights
Government must give pubs which serve as the beating hearts of their communities greater support with tax rebates to safeguard the nation’s locals as vital social lifelines, a report from the think-tank Localis has urged today.
One in five SME owners planning to sell part or all of business by 2025
One-in-five SME owners plan to sell part or all their business within the next two years according to a new study.
MPs are waking up to late payment culture threatening the SME community
The ongoing late payment threat facing UK businesses is now so bad, it has caught the attention of Westminster.
IoD calls for more ambitious exports target
The Institute of Directors urges the government to aim higher on its strategy for export growth – the current target of £1 trillion exports in current prices by 2030 is not sufficiently stretching.
Skills crisis holding back the majority of SMEs from scaling up
Nearly seventy per cent go UK SMEs say that recruiting and developing adequately skilled staff is their biggest barrier to growth, a think tank reveals today.
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