The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
The second phase of the Growth and Innovation Fund (GIF) was launched today by Business Secretary Vince Cable and Minister for Skills John Hayes. The fund will support businesses to develop their skills solutions tailored to their own needs, transforming growth in their sector, region or supply chain.
Despite record unemployment figures many UK employers are finding it difficult to recruit British workers – especially amongst the younger age groups.
Reggae Reggae sauce creator Levi Roots has admitted lying when he told the Dragons’ Den that the recipe was handed down to him by his grandmother.
Businesses will be given the power to design, develop and purchase the vocational training programme they need under a £250 million plan announced today by the Prime Minister. The move is designed to boost economic growth and ensure that the UK workforce has the skills that businesses require.
As much as £9 billion pounds could be added to the British economy if SMEs that aspire to grow were able to do so. Key barriers to growth, which need to be overcome, include economic uncertainly, regulation and market demand.
Captains of industry from world leading UK companies are backing a new Government campaign to highlight the best of modern British manufacturing at an exhibition during the Olympic Games.
Small businesses may be losing out on the most talented employees due to concerns among jobseekers around pay and benefits, according to a new survey.
Business Minister Mark Prisk today announced two new government initiatives to support young people gaining their first experiences of enterprise as he marked the start of Global Entrepreneurship Week at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
A series of new measures to help Britain’s small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) grow and create jobs, export to new markets, secure finance and cut red tape has been launched by the Prime Minister.
Yell and UK Trade & Investment(UKTI) have announced an exciting partnership to provide vital support and guidance to small and medium-sized enterprises looking to expand internationally.
The London Entrepreneurial Exchange, the voice of UK entrepreneurs, supports the CBI in its call on the government to use the Autumn Statement as an opportunity to introduce a raft of measures aimed at stimulating growth while maintaining its strict discipline on public spending.
The cream of British business celebrated last night at the prestigious and influential National Business Awards in partnership with Orange at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
Business and Enterprise Minister Mark Prisk has called for a more mature relationship between business and regulators. He also talked about the need for a more accountable and transparent system of local regulation and a simpler regulatory landscape.
A Government investment of £950 million will help create and safeguard more than 200,000 jobs across England has been announced by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
A project to save the last working Victorian pottery in the UK and create more than 100 new jobs in Stoke-on-Trent has secured commitments to receive £5 million of government and private funding.
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