Category: News

The established underwear manufacturer Headen & Quarmby – which makes the Kinky Knickers brand created by Mary Portas – has had to shed more than 30 jobs after being placed in administration.

A generation of renters could be left behind as the housing debate focuses on home ownership warned the CBI, as it called for action to boost investment in the rental sector.

Pushing up wages will “make sure that we have a recovery for all and that work pays,” Chancellor says, in a move apparently aimed at Labour voters

Virgin Media Business is searching for three game-changing digital innovations that could transform the way we live and work for good.

UK businesses are starting 2014 with a call to government to support British manufacturing, following the sector’s encouraging performance in the last half of 2013.

Research from UK’s small businesses has found that more are confident about investing in their businesses than in the past few years, with over half saying they more likely to invest in growth in the first six months of 2014 than the same time last year.

The global economy is at a “turning point”, the World Bank has said, as it forecasts stronger growth for 2014.

Figures released this week show that the UK inflation rate dropped to 2% in December 2013, hitting the target set by the Bank of England’s forward guidance policy.

Startup Institute, the career accelerator for people who want to work in startups or early-stage technology companies, is opening new schools in London and Berlin.

Small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK could be losing out on as much as £3.7billion each year through failing to submit or chase up invoices, a new study reveals.

A ground-breaking £2m incubator fund is offering zero per cent interest loans to social entrepreneurs across the North of England.

Recent research has revealed that a quarter of British SME’s are starting the new year with sustainability declared as one of their top priorities.

A brand new, £8m initiative, designed to re-invigorate UK high streets, has been announced by Science and Universities Minister, David Willetts.

Employment prospects across the UK have received a significant boost after it emerged that almost a third of Britain’s Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) intend to recruit new staff in 2014.

Over-achievers are at risk of becoming addicted to the internet because of the pressure they put on themselves to continue working outside of office hours.