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As part of the government’s long term economic plan, and following the Autumn Statement, the Enterprise Minister Matthew Hancock has set out the government’s offer to make it easier for small businesses to grow and create jobs.

A landmark global trade deal, which will boost the UK economy by more than £1bn a year was heralded by Prime Minister David Cameron.

Chancellor caps business rates, gives pubs, restaurants and smalls shops a £1,000 discount and extends relief for small businesses

George Osborne delivers his Autumn Statement to the House of Commons, warning there is still work to be done to fix Britain’s economy

The annual rate of cost inflation for small and medium-sized enterprises fell from 1.2% to 0.7% in the third quarter of 2013, marking the lowest rate of inflation since 2009, according to the latest Aldermore Bank SME Cost Inflation Report compiled by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).

Appearing on television can often be a make-or-break thing for a company, but careers advice site not going to uni are thankful that their brush with Dragons’ Den star James Caan has left them fired up and full of ideas for change.

New data from an affiliate network based in the UK has revealed that more people with full time jobs are moonlighting as affiliate marketers; setting up affiliate websites as a means of generating extra income on top of that brought in by their day job.

39 per cent of companies in the UK are yet to develop their website to work on mobile devices, according to a new report released this month. With an increasing focus on the web and e-commerce for sales, this is an alarming figure.

Bailed-out banks face angry backlash from customers unable to pay for goods or use their accounts for second time this year

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The Bank of England says lending by banks and building societies participating in its Funding for Lending (FLS) scheme was three times higher in the third quarter.

Online spending will top £500m in a single day on Cyber Monday as consumers throw off their austerity shackles.

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) – the Government’s independent fiscal watchdog – is likely to upgrade its projection for UK growth in 2013 to 1.4pc, from a forecast of 0.6pc in March

The latest Business Insolvency Index from Experian, the global information services company, reveals that the UK’s largest companies saw the number of insolvencies in October halve compared to last year.

Central bank moves to guard against risk of bubble in house prices by scaling back scheme launched last year to boost mortgage lending