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The International Festival for Business (IFB2014) launches today, offering in partnership with UKTI and the Department of Business Skills and Innovation, more than 1,000 live business opportunities with an estimated value of over £1.7bn.

The majority of the UK’s small and mid-sized firms are optimistic about their financial prospects for the year ahead, and looking to new markets both at home and overseas for growth finds new research by BSI, the business standards company.

The dominant services sector expanded faster than expected last month as hiring matched a 17-year high

The Queen’s Speech today highlighted the introduction of the ‘Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill’, a piece of legislation that is, for the first time, specifically designed to address the needs of UKs small businesses.

Pensions took centre stage in an 11 bill programme, with changes to annuities and workplace schemes.

Company tapping into UK skills as London xone hub takes on responsibility for developing mobile technologies

The UK’s growing economy is directly affecting the UK’s self-employed workforce, who today confirmed a growth in availability of work and contract rates, based on new research from Crunch Accounting.

Warrior Doors, Managing Director, Brett Barratt talks to us about how he changed his business from repairing doors and windows as a carpenter to supplying supplying high value retailers with enhanced security devices.

Mandy O’Sullivan, Managing Director, Bettaveg tells us how the business has grown to now seen as a force to be reckoned with

As voters across the Continent give all European leaders cause to reflect on the EU’s agenda for the years ahead, the CBI set out the business vision for a reformed EU focussing on boosting jobs and raising living standards. It urged all politicians not to waste the opportunity for change.

Businesses across Greater Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country have an opportunity to access finance to grow and create jobs as part of a £56million Mezzanine Fund.

Consumer confidence has reached its highest level in almost seven years as economic optimism among British workers increases, new figures from YouGov and the Centre for Economics and Business Research suggest.

Owners and directors of small and medium sized businesses are still being caused problems, including stress-related health issues, through the late payment of invoices despite the economic upturn, a survey by the International Association of Book-keepers (IAB) has found.

The Future High Street Forum has published a report that identifies local leadership as the ‘recipe for success’ on the high street.

Innovative firms, particularly smaller start-ups, will be offered the chance to work with the FCA whilst the develop new technologies and approaches to ensure they are compliant with regulations from the moment they go live said FCA chief-executive Martin Wheatley