Category: News

Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia Group is considering selling the department store chain BHS after receiving “several approaches”

Intuit QuickBooks launches competition to celebrate small business success West Midlands-based businesses invited to enter for the chance to win £15,000 prize package

China’s Hutchison Whampoa Ltd has agreed to buy Telefonica’s British mobile unit O2 for up to £10.25 billion pounds, hastening the consolidation of Britain’s telecoms industry.

Designer Kelly Hoppen has announced she is quitting BBC Two’s Dragons’ Den after two series.

A former “Entrepreneur of the Year” and five others have appeared in court accused of orchestrating a £142m fraud.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has announced it will start to suggest peer-to-peer lending to rejected business loan applicants.

Aldermore, the self-procliamed specialist SME bank has revealed that its asset finance portfolio has exceeded £1 billion.

Former Rugby Union star Mike Cawthorn is channelling his performance improvement expertise into a new company aimed at helping accelerate businesses performance through better use of technology.

Yorkshire-based hydraulic engineering firm, Advanced Actuators has partnered with the University of Bradford to take part in one of the UK’s largest graduate recruitment schemes.

British workers have highlighted the importance of a simple thank you in the workplace, revealing that ‘feeling valued’ by their boss is the top motivational factor in helping them achieve more during their nine to five.

Catherine Spink, Director, Neon Creations tells us about how they have grown their business over the past nine years from a startup to being commissioned by some of the largest global brands.

According to the governments Business Population Estimates, there were 5.2 million SMEs in the UK in 2014. The government pledged that by 2015 that 25% of their direct and indirect spend would go to SMEs, but as a nation are we doing enough to help promote small business?

David Cameron will vow today to expand the Start-Up Loans scheme so that an extra 50,000 budding entrepreneurs to set up new companies before the end of the next Parliamentary term with a reported £300million of loan capital being made available.

Mike Kelly, head of Living Wage at KPMG comments on the Households below a Minimum Income Standard 2008/09 to 2012/13 report published today