Category: News

The service sector is continuing to feel the benefits of the economic upswing with growing optimism, business volumes rising briskly and firms taking on more staff. That’s according to the CBI’s latest quarterly Service Sector Survey.

Businesses are struggling to prepare for auto enrolment legislation, saying that a lack of relevant qualifications, time and resources is preventing them from meeting the new workplace pension requirements.

Richard Hillgrove, founder of Hillgrove PR, failed to pay nearly £100,000 of VAT and National Insurance payments due to HMRC

Activity in the UK manufacturing sector remained solid in May, and output is expected to rise strongly in the next three months, the latest CBI Industrial Trends Survey shows.

A one-time rock musician who put down his guitar and picked up a spade has been named Britain’s best company in the Federation of Small Businesses’ annual awards.

Official data confirm the UK economy grew by 0.8pc in the first quarter, as strong consumer spending growth supported by robust business investment

Are you ready to start your own recruitment company…? Serial Entrepreneur James Caan Announces the Launch of his Third Search for the Next Recruitment Entrepreneur.

Interest rate rises could be the “only game in town” to deal with an overheating market, says BoE deputy governor Charlie Bean

Video game retailer plans stock market listing two years after toppling into administration

Business group outlines practical steps firms can take, but government help also needed.

An app enabling people to sell their smartphone photos and a novel storage business caught the imagination of Sir Richard Branson and a panel of judges with their 90-second pitches at Virgin Media Pioneers Pitch to Rich 2014 to win a prize package of investment and mentoring.

There has been a step change in the tax disclosures made by the UK’s largest listed companies, a new PwC report published today shows.

Budding female entrepreneurs are set to benefit from superfast broadband with a new £1m challenge fund, enabling them to work effectively, access new markets and grow their business online.

Jobless number drops 133,000 to 2.2m as working population rises to all-time high of almost 30.5m

Bank lays out possible scenario comparable to that seen in some eastern European countries following the collapse of the Soviet Union