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  • Applied Nutrition closes in on £1bn valuation after raising guidance for third time this year
  • One of Britain’s oldest family firms to save £250,000 a year as energy scheme opens to forges
  • Burnham signals more energy bills support in budget as price cap rises 4 per cent
  • OnlyFans owner dividends topped $700m before his death
  • TikTok UK legal bill tops $1bn as regulators close in
  • National Wealth Fund backs Devon tungsten mine revival with £71m
  • Zero-hours contracts crackdown risks closing ‘doors to opportunity’, employers warn
  • British start-up to help America build nuclear-powered cargo ships
  • HMRC checks 45 million PAYE accounts as P800 letters go out
  • London’s female founders pass £100m in Start Up Loans

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The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK

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Boost for Chancellor as housing market set to drive economy

13 October 2013 News Business Matters 0 Comments

EY ITEM Club says there is little risk of a housing bubble and that recovering prices will boost spending and drive GDP growth

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Cut EU red tape to save billions, business chiefs tell Cameron

13 October 2013 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The Government-appointed panel are set to tell the prime minister to push through changes at a European level which could save business billions of pounds

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UK Technology firms awarded places on Mission to Brazil

11 October 20132 August 2026 News Business Matters 0 Comments

A select group of innovative UK technology companies have been awarded places on the Clean and Cool Mission to Brazil to explore business opportunities aimed at tacking climate change and improving resource efficiency.

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Office politics: workers keep quiet about views

10 October 2013 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Over half of British office workers are scared to disclose their political beliefs fearing their colleagues will think less of them – a new survey has found.

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Royal Mail sale: 700,000 apply for shares

10 October 201310 October 2013 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Government reveals that sell-off is seven times oversubscribed, fuelling criticism that price is too low

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IMF upgrades UK growth in embarrassing about-turn

9 October 2013 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Britain forecast to grow 1.4pc this year, double the rate estimated in April when the IMF singled out the UK and George Osborne for criticism.

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Sign On: Apprentice Stella English joins dole queue after losing court battle with Lord Sugar

8 October 201317 July 2021 News Business Matters 2 Comments

After claiming that she had no job, was on the verge of losing her home and was down to her last few pounds, it would appear that former Apprentice winner Stella English is now joining the dole queue.

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LinkedIn Endorsements: Useful or a Waste of Time?

8 October 20134 October 2018 News, Opinion Andy Preston 3 Comments

LinkedIn is a great way to sell yourself and your business, but one of the things I’ve been asked about a lot recently, is the LinkedIn ‘Endorsement’ feature. Added to a few profiles for testing last year before they rolled it out fully this has been a topic that comes up recently whenever LinkedIn is mentioned.

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Royal Mail IPO: Retail investor demand highest since lastminute float

8 October 2013 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Share sales creates a frenzy in the “grey market” as private investors bet the Royal Mail’s shareprice will start trading at £4.03 – well above the government’s guide price.

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£100m investment set to give Enterprise Zones business edge

7 October 2013 News Business Matters 0 Comments

This Government is putting an extra £100 million on the table so Enterprise Zones can complete key infrastructure projects and successfully compete for the new businesses that will create thousands of local jobs across the country, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has announced.

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TV is bad for start-ups…and for sourcing funding

7 October 20137 October 2013 News Business Matters 1 Comment

That is the response to todays YouGov survey by The Centre for Entrepreneurs – finding that small-business leaders say Dragons’ Den creates a misconception that start-ups need to part with equity for cash in order to succeed

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Michelle Mone takes full control of diet business to expand business portfolio

7 October 2013 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone and an unnamed business partner have taken full control of the diet business she founded with a medicine entrepreneur.

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Finalists revealed for 2013 National Sales Awards

4 October 2013 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Four of the UK’s leading sales professionals have been nominated and shortlisted for the Silent Edge Sales Director of the Year Award, at this year’s National Sales Awards.

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New Funding For Traineeship Scheme Announced

3 October 20133 October 2013 News Business Matters 0 Comments

An extra £20m is being made available to the government’s new Traineeships programme to support even more young people into Apprenticeships and other jobs.

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UK Commercial Property Owners to Lose Three Quarters of a Billion Pounds of Tax Relief in the Next Tax Year

3 October 20133 October 2013 News Business Matters 1 Comment

Britain’s commercial property owners, many of whom are everyday businesses, are set to lose more than three quarters of a billion pounds in unused tax relief in the coming financial year, according to capital allowances tax specialists, and ICAEW affinity partner, Catax Solutions.

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The sports supplement maker Applied Nutrition has raised its annual sales and profit guidance for the third time this year, bringing the company founded by a former Liverpool scaffolder within touching distance of a £1 billion stock market valuation.

Applied Nutrition closes in on £1bn valuation after raising guidance for third time this year

Applied Nutrition, the sports supplement maker founded by former Liverpool scaffolder Tom Ryder, has upgraded its sales and profit guidance for the third time this year, with revenue expected to jump 50 per cent to £160 million and the group closing in on a £1 billion stock market valuation.

One of Britain’s oldest family firms to save £250,000 a year as energy scheme opens to forges

Burnham signals more energy bills support in budget as price cap rises 4 per cent

OnlyFans owner dividends topped $700m before his death

Business travel and meals on the go: one way to show your team you care

TikTok UK legal bill tops $1bn as regulators close in

National Wealth Fund backs Devon tungsten mine revival with £71m

Zero-hours contracts crackdown risks closing ‘doors to opportunity’, employers warn

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