The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Boohoo boss Dan Finley tells 1,500 head office staff to ditch the grey tracksuit bottoms and return to the office full time to test clothes and…
Formula 1 is worth £12bn a year to the UK economy, with a record British Grand Prix crowd at Silverstone set to deliver a £100m boost,…
OpenAI is in talks to hand the US government a 5% stake worth $43bn as Sam Altman courts the Trump administration ahead of a $1tn New…
Andrew Bailey says cutting interest rates is 'off the table' as the Iran war stokes inflation, signalling the Bank of England will hold Bank Rate at…
TG Jones, WH Smith's former high street business, has won High Court approval for a restructuring that will close up to 150 shops and slash rents…
Coughlans Bakery, the 89-year-old chain co-owned by comedian Romesh Ranganathan, has gone into liquidation. Owner Sean Coughlan blames National Insurance, business rates and soaring costs.
MPs on the public accounts committee warn Northern Powerhouse Rail risks an HS2-style fiasco, with no detailed design after 12 years and a £45bn budget "decoupled…
Royal Mail is capping festive business collections at three times normal capacity, and small firms warn the limit could throttle growth during their make-or-break Christmas trade.
Getty Images has scrapped its $3.7bn merger with Shutterstock after the UK's CMA made approval conditional on selling Shutterstock's editorial arm.
Britain has overtaken India to claim the world's third-highest number of unicorns, with a record 80 billion-dollar start-ups worth £242.4bn, led by fintech and AI.
UK business confidence slipped again in June as the Middle East war entered its fifth month, with factories hardest hit by energy costs, Lloyds finds.
Brompton has sold a 15% stake to Decathlon and China's BA Capital in an £18m deal to fund expansion in France and China, its largest market.
Barclays has bought a 999-year leasehold on its One Churchill Place global HQ for £750m, in a deal hailed as a "strong endorsement" of Canary Wharf…
UK Export Finance has unveiled a £50bn Defence Export Fund, lifting its total capacity to £130bn to help British defence firms of all sizes win major…
Rising employment costs are forcing thousands of owner-managers to absorb the bill themselves, squeezing profits, pensions and hiring alike