Category: News

Too few businesses appreciate the importance of connectivity when rolling out cloud-based IT strategies, according to data centre specialist Node4.

Shops, offices, pubs and clubs will no longer face burdensome health and safety inspections, and over 3,000 regulations will be scrapped or overhauled in a radical plan by the Government to curb red tape and boost British business growth.

The sales culture that has riddled the banking industry with scandal must end and lenders must “recast” themselves as boring and trustworthy with a focus on customers, according to Lloyds Banking Group’s chief executive António Horta-Osório.

While the UK economy is on go slow with the crisis in the eurozone impacting trade at home and abroad, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are finding new ways to adapt to the changing landscape according to one funding provider.

Lancaster University Management School has appointed 20 new Entrepreneurs in Residence – all owner-managers who work at the sharp end of business or industry.

More than 100,000 UK businesses could save £millions in annual accountancy and administration costs under reduced auditing and reporting requirements announced by the Business Secretary, Vince Cable today.

A national enterprise campaign is offering British start-ups a unique opportunity to get their products into a top department store via a Dragon’s Den-style pitch.

The UK’s most senior business leaders are getting new advice on how to better tackle the growing cyber threats to their companies.

Chancellor George Osborne has been speaking about his plan to set up a state-backed small business bank, which is the latest in a line of initiatives intended to crack one of the government’s most intractable problems: how to get credit flowing to small companies.

Hundreds of thousands of UK businesses are due a hefty tax rebate from the Inland Revenue, according to capital allowances tax specialists, CA Tax Solutions.

One of the reasons that there are fewer employment tribunals – as shown by the latest statistics – is that companies are better prepared than ever in how to manage them, according to the employment law specialist Bibby Consulting & Support, which literally puts small businesses in the dock with mock tribunals.

Barclays is offering its SME customers an instant cashback injection of two percent on loans, which will immediately boost a business’ cash flow.

Fifty per cent of businesses add more to their IT systems than is necessary, making for a complex environment that is expensive to support.

Norman Lamb, Minister for Employment Relations, has today taken the move of naming an employer under the BIS Scheme for naming employers who flout National Minimum Wage (NMW) law.

New proposals to prevent consumers being unfairly charged for using payment methods including credit or debit cards have been announced by the Consumer Affairs Minister, Norman Lamb.