The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Great British Pitch India launches on 16 June, giving 40+ UK small businesses the chance to pitch live to Indian buyers, backed by the Chancellor and…
SpaceX shares surged past their $135 IPO price to hit $150 on debut, as investors piled into Elon Musk's $1.75tn space and satellite empire. But can…
Mike Ashley's Frasers Group has tabled a £1.7bn cash offer of €38 a share for the 74% of German fashion house Hugo Boss it does not…
Rachel Reeves has hinted taxes may rise again to fund a £15bn defence uplift, as Keir Starmer delays the Defence Investment Plan until just before the…
Working days lost to strikes fell from 1.4 million to 559,000 in Labour's first year in power, GMB analysis of ONS data shows, a drop of…
FCA warns £9bn car finance mis-selling payouts, averaging £829 across 12.1 million agreements, are unlikely before 2027 as carmakers mount legal challenges.
Amazon opens a £500m robotic fulfilment centre in Northampton and confirms the UK's largest cross-dock facility for Kettering, taking its Northamptonshire investment past £1bn and creating…
WH Smith is raising £100m through a share placing after cutting profit guidance, blaming a US sales slump and fallout from the US-Iran conflict.
A suppressed Cabinet Office dossier found £28bn of UK aid and Covid relief reached Islamic State, Russia, China-linked firms and crime gangs between 2015 and 2021.…
Record May heat sent UK retail sales up 3.7%, with fans, sandals and barbecues flying off the shelves. But with inflation set to top 4%, the…
Reading-based NewOrbit has raised £13.8m to launch the world's first commercial satellite built for very low Earth orbit, a potential British rival to Elon Musk's Starlink.
Almost 200,000 households earning more than £104,000 a year now claim Personal Independence Payment, as Britain's disability benefits bill heads towards £41bn. Inside the numbers driving…
Tata Steel warns its £1.25bn Port Talbot electric arc furnace could slip by up to eight months after National Grid flagged delays connecting the plant to…
Marks & Spencer is creating 1,000 management traineeships for 18 to 24-year-olds, no degree required, as more than a million young Britons sit outside work or…
Business secretary Peter Kyle says the state will ‘aggressively’ take bigger stakes in fast-growing British firms, putting billions of taxpayer pounds behind home-grown innovation to jump-start…