Category: News

Buy-out group OpCapita has paid £50m for 333 Game stores and will appoint former Halfords’ chief executive David Hamid as chairman.

Tougher standards introduced by Skills Minister to drive up quality with apprenticeships set to last for a minimum of 12 months guaranteeing improvements in training and workplace learning, Skills Minister John Hayes has announced

The British Property Federation has welcomed the Government response to retail guru Mary Portas’s review of the high street.

Small businesses will be hit with significant increases in the cost of postal services after an Ofcom announcement allowing Royal Mail bosses to set stamp prices themselves.

The Treasury has set in motion a dramatic simplification of the way the smallest companies have to keep trading records and pay taxes.

Germany is preparing a raft of measures to safeguard its financial system and prevent excess stimulus from the European Central Bank leaking into an inflationary credit boom

New statistics published today show an increase in the number of people starting an apprenticeship.

RBS released details of its potential exposure after being asked how many swaps it had sold to its small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) customers.

Small business confidence in UK economic and international trading conditions is the highest for six months, research finds.

The Government is to invest up to £15 million in research, development and knowledge transfer to stimulate innovation and support growth in the civil nuclear power sector.

Celebrations for the Queen’s diamond jubilee could throw the British economy into reverse again, Sir Mervyn King has warned.

A fifth of high street retailers are looking to invest in technology and integrate more mobile payment methods in the next twelve months.