Category: News

Entrepreneurs are the ‘rock stars’ of the business world, according to a start-up expert and best-selling small business author.

Banks are very poor predictors of the risks on their balance sheets, according to a report by analysts at Barclays.

The British Chambers of Commerce has raised its hopes for three years of UK growth for the first time in memory.

If anyone is under any doubt about the legality of facilitation payments under UK law, they should check the website of the Serious Fraud Office.

Cash is still the most popular form of payment in UK shops but the popularity of vouchers and coupons is on the rise, research has suggested.

Almost 40 per cent of manufacturing firms say apprentices, graduates and new recruits don’t have the work ethic to succeed in industry, according to poll released by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

The jobs market remains weak and is likely to continue to struggle well into the second half of the decade, making this a more severe downturn for employment levels than the two previous recessions, according to the Resolution Foundation think tank.

Britain’s struggling high streets will be hit by more than 60,000 store closures in the next five years, a report out today warns.

The UK economy is showing more signs of getting back on its feet as new figures out today show parts of the services sector expanding at their fastest pace since before the financial crisis.

An ambitious €4.6 million project coordinated by the University of Strathclyde is set to bring together world-leading academics and researchers to map the changing nature of employment.

In a ceremony attended by leading figures from the sector along with representatives from the media, business, and government and including a keynote address by Stephen Hammond MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport some of the UKs best women in the logistics world were recognised.

Waiting hours for a mobile phone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old American high-school student’s Eesha Khare invention.

The average cost of starting a business in the UK is £312, significantly less than the average UK weekly wage of £442, according to a new survey of micro-business owners.

Wikipedia could have been used as early warning signs of stock market movements, according to a new scientific study.

The CBI has launched an alternative finance guide called on SMEs firms to consider the broad range of finance options available to help them grow, including asset-based lending, equity investment and peer-to-peer lending.