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Sunday 8 November 2026
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Small charities and community projects need to show how they can boost companies' profits to secure support
Employers across England are being encouraged to take advantage of a new funding initiative to help them recruit their first young apprentices.
Britain’s first entrepreneur to make a million in a phone-box, is set to use his unparalleled knowledge and expertise to boost London’s business, as the British…
New industries pop up all the time, whether by accident – think of the popularity of mobile phone texting – or the mass commercialisation of a…
Against a weak economic backdrop, brands in Britain spent almost 5 billion pounds advertising online in 2011, with video ads and marketing on social media platforms…
The Minister for Employment Chris Grayling has urged employers to sign up to a new work experience charter published today by the Chartered Institute of Personnel…
Santander has walked off with three awards at the annual Business Moneyfacts Awards.
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…
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…
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…
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.