The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
After a day, where a number of ill-thought through comments made to undercover journalists from The Daily Telegraph by the Business Secretary Vince Cable were exposed,…
Stella English was last night hired by Lord Sugar as his apprentice after beating rival Chris Bates to be crowned winner of the BBC reality show…
Business Link, the governments small business advice service, has said the decision to mark the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29 with…
Business Secretary Vince Cable has defended his decision to increase tuition fees in favour of preserving apprenticeships and skills schemes. With unemployment in the UK is…
New data published today reveals that out of all the jobs created by small and medium sized enterprises in the UK over the last 10 years,…
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said that is is essential that central government becomes a better buyer of goods and services from small and medium…
Employees in businesses with fewer than 49 employees will lose the right to ask for paid time off for training following a decision to exempt small…
Vince Cable has announced, during the event held in London to mark the opening of Global Entrepreneurship Week in the UK, that the government will be…
The business secretary Vince Cable has announced the creation of a new forum featuring high profile entrepreneurs to advise the government on business and enterprise policies.
On a night of triumph for UK plc, the best British businesses gathered to celebrate excellence, innovation and ethics at the ninth annual National Business Awards…
One of the UK's leading law firms Mishcon de Reya has partnered with The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to produce The Entrepreneurship Report;…
SMEs have a new champion in Westminster as Prime Minister David Cameron has asked Lord Young, the former trade and industry secretary to take up Lord…
Business Link, the publicly funded advice network founded in 1982 by Lord (Michael Heseltine) during his time as head of the DTI, is to be scrapped…
Sales on the high street were higher than a year ago in October, according to the latest CBI monthly Distributive Trades Survey. The figure was positive…
Having an efficient and effective sales strategy is key to the success of all SMEs – particularly as they battle to build a strong customer base…