Category: News

A new lending scheme will help overseas buyers purchase the goods of UK exporters.

Small firms in the UK have lost £785 million to cyber criminals in the last twelve months and according to internet entrepreneur Fil Adams-Mercer the problem will continue to increase without improved policing.

The new Governor of the Bank of England faces a growing struggle to rein in market expectations of a rise in interest rates after new data pointed to the UK recovery’s increasing momentum.

Sector’s trade body EEF finds rebound in output and orders over the last quarter and investment intentions on six-year high

Half of all high street chains in Britain are at “serious risk of failure” a major report on the future of British retailing will claim this week.

The British Chambers of Commerce has sharply upped its 2013 growth forecast, saying the economy is gaining momentum.

Retailer agrees to drop clause banning third-party traders from selling products cheaper elsewhere

The UK is one of the top five countries in the G20 to start, grow and run a business, according to the Entrepreneurship Barometer released today by accountants EY.

A recent survey by SAGE, one of the industry leaders in all things accounting, has revealed that 39 per cent of small business owners would like their accountants to utilise technology more effectively in order to stay in contact.

The Co-operative Group has reported a loss for the first six month of the year of £559m as a result of new writedowns in its struggling banking arm.

Employers who fail to pay the National Minimum Wage (NMW) will be publicly named and shamed under revamped plans to make it easier to clamp down on rogue businesses, Employment Relations Minister Jo Swinson announced today.

She reached the final of The Apprentice after impressing Lord Sugar with her shrewd business acumen. But Luisa Zissman horrified her Twitter followers today by revealing that she had a surprisingly weak grasp of basic grammar.

As more than 700,000 young people pick up their GCSE results, the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, has revealed how few employers are stepping up efforts to reduce youth unemployment.

Buddi, the mobile alarm and tagging technology minnow, has won part of a Ministry of Justice contract worth hundreds of millions of pounds to tag offenders.

The latest Business Insolvency Index from Experian, the global information services company, reveals positive news for the economy as the overall business insolvency rate fell to 0.08 per cent in July