Category: News

Service sector firms started 2014 in upbeat mood following a third consecutive quarter of rising activity, according to the CBI’s quarterly Service Sector Survey.

Suppressing rage may be a national past time, but Brits will get into more than 4,000 office rows during their working life, a new study has found.

Retail sales grew strongly in the year to February, beating expectations, and at the fastest pace since June 2012, according to the CBI’s latest quarterly Distributive Trades Survey.

Seven aerospace research projects designed to keep Britain at the forefront of the global aerospace market will receive almost £60 million.

Consumer confidence lifted to its highest level in three years in January, according to a report

The University of Bath has launched a completely free online course aimed at providing businesses with the practical skills needed to develop a sustainable development strategy.

If London wishes to remain Europe’s tech capital, the UK government must introduce ‘exceptional talent’ visas now in order to plug the skills gap in the UK tech and media sectors.

Record-breaking numbers of women are now in work – the employment rate of 67.2% is the highest since records began and over 14 million women are in employment, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics this morning.

Britain has been hailed as a “Goldilocks economy” after data showed inflation fell below the Bank of England’s 2pc target for the first time in more than four years

A large proportion of the UK’s small and medium-sized businesses are still underestimating the requirements of auto-enrolment pension laws despite 6,000 organisations being less than 50 days away from their staging date.

There should be a new business rate system for shops, the retailing body the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has said.

The underwear maker championed by retail expert Mary Portas, Headen and Quarmby, is out of administration just a month after it was forced to close.

Britain must see a business recovery before interest rates can begin to rise, according to Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England.

Chairmen at Britain’s largest retailers are ‘consistently negative’ on independence and warn that prices could rise if Scotland splits

Enough shops to fill the whole of Westfield London or the Shard twice were lost in the UK last year, according to new retail research figures