Category: News

According to a new report from the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, the overall quality of management in the UK continues to trail the USA, Germany and other productivity leaders and is one of the key reasons behind the UK’s long-standing productivity weakness.

A new poll of 1,000 small and medium sized business, commissioned by small business funder Liberis, shows that SMEs know the benefits of alternative funding, but many still see it as last stop funding.

Global IP-driven revenues could reach as much as $1 trillion by 2020, from an estimated $242bn in 2012, as new data technologies empower companies to fully leverage their patent portfolios.

New research carried out by the UK’s largest Angel network has revealed that more than one in ten Britons have ‘starting my own business’ on their new year’s resolutions list for 2015.

The Manchester-based Cloud Services Provider (CSP) Outsourcery headed up by TV Dragon Piers Linney  has been named the winner of the ‘SaaS [Software-as-a-Service] Solution of the Year’ category at the 2014 Storage, Virtualisation and Cloud (SVC) Awards.

Consumers across the UK came out in force to support the UK’s second Small Business Saturday on 6 December 2014. 16.5 million people shopped in small independent businesses on the day, representing a 20% increase in footfall on last year or 2.7 million more shoppers at one of the busiest times of the year.

Seventy-five percent of content marketers surveyed in the United Kingdom say Twitter is effective for them.

There is significant pent-up demand across the UK for mobile payments, which we define as payments made via the mobile phone directly onto your mobile phone bill, or using available credit from a pay-as-you-go account, for physical or quasi-physical goods. Our research reveals that over 23 million people would like to use mobile payments.

Luxury Italian car manufacturer, Maserati, and the Centre for Entrepreneurs (CFE) have launched a campaign to find 100 of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs who are supporting the next generation of up and coming business talent.

Study finds that 77 per cent of organisations do not currently consider wearables as part of their mobile security strategy

Almost half of UK consumers claim they still prefer to shop on the high street instead of online

The number of first-time business directors in the UK is at an all-time high. Which according to Experian data, alongside a lower level of business experience, these ‘Debut Directors’ start-up with less investment than ever before and an increasing proportion come from backgrounds with lower than average levels of affluence.

The Prime Minister, David Cameron has honoured and celebrated the government’s GREAT Campaign ambassadors, the campaign which has delivered a direct return to the economy of over £1bn and is now active in 144 countries.

On the 9th of December the Our Hub is offering free workshops on Marketing and Management at Shottle Hall in Derbyshire to celebrate Our Hub’s launch in the county.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has finished his Autumn Statement, here we find out what businesses think of his announcements.