The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
An app enabling people to sell their smartphone photos and a novel storage business caught the imagination of Sir Richard Branson and a panel of judges with their 90-second pitches at Virgin Media Pioneers Pitch to Rich 2014 to win a prize package of investment and mentoring.
There has been a step change in the tax disclosures made by the UK’s largest listed companies, a new PwC report published today shows.
Budding female entrepreneurs are set to benefit from superfast broadband with a new £1m challenge fund, enabling them to work effectively, access new markets and grow their business online.
Jobless number drops 133,000 to 2.2m as working population rises to all-time high of almost 30.5m
Bank lays out possible scenario comparable to that seen in some eastern European countries following the collapse of the Soviet Union
Despite the ongoing concerns over access to finance, charges and calling in loans, small business owners remain reluctant to switch banks according to the latest research from national business group the Forum of Private Business.
The North West’s SMEs are ready to invest more than £8bn of their own turnover into the UK in the next 12 months as their confidence in the economy improves, according to new research
Firms that need to show exactly how their hi-tech products work can call on award-winning young entrepreneurs Elliott Whiteley and Gareth Humphreys, who are able to create stunning animations that make even complex technology and elaborate machinery seem clear and simple.
Growth predicted to rise to 3.0 per cent in 2014 and CBI unveils businesses’ priorities ahead of 2015 general election
Workaholic Brits will spend more than three times as many hours with their office colleagues than with their children – new research has found.
Commons Treasury committee raises concerns about powers of HMRC to remove cash from bank accounts without a court order.
Barclays is set to cut more than a quarter of the staff in its investment banking arm as part of a radical overhaul of the lender that will also lead to the closure and disposal of its entire European retail business.
Andrew Esson, Managing Director, Quick Hydraulics tells us how having the nerve to acquire a business while the economy was still in the depths of recession, and then investing in growth in advance of the economic recovery has led to the creation of 18 new jobs in the past 30 months.
Optimism amongst the UK’s smaller manufacturers has surged to its highest level since records began in 1988, according to the CBI’s latest SME Trends Survey.
We talk to Andrew Churchill, Managing Director, JJ Churchill who are a third generation family company expanding into Mexico who site the catalyst for their growth as the school leaver apprenticeship programme they operate.
