The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Samsung's 78,000 semiconductor workers are in line for bonuses of up to £300,000 after a landmark profit-share deal, as the AI memory chip supercycle reshapes the…
Amazon's UK tax bill jumps 20% to more than £1.3bn after the employer national insurance rise and stronger sales — but campaigners want a clearer breakdown.
Poundland owner Gordon Brothers has bought British handbag brand Radley through a pre-pack administration, rescuing the label but axing 42 jobs and leaving 21 UK stores…
OpenAI's Sam Altman concedes his predictions about AI eliminating white-collar jobs were "pretty wrong" — but with Standard Chartered, Meta and Amazon all cutting roles, UK…
UK long-term unemployment has climbed to a ten-year high of 474,000, piling pressure on SMEs as employer National Insurance, minimum wage rises and youth jobless rates…
Angela Rayner has urged Sir Keir Starmer to ban social media for under-16s, but Labour is split over an Australian-style measure that early evidence suggests is…
Promoters in the recruitment and temporary labour sector are pushing a bogus payment ‘trick’ that HMRC says has no legal foundation — and SMEs further down…
Goalhanger launches Goalhanger Ventures, taking an equity stake in Invisible Media and a commercial partnership with Backyard Cricket as it bets on Britain's creator economy.
Nigel Farage will scrap income tax on overtime for workers earning under £75,000 — a £5bn Reform UK pledge with major implications for SME payroll.
Charlotte Tilbury's payout demand has derailed the £30bn Estée Lauder–Puig beauty mega-merger, with a change-of-control clause proving the deal-breaker.
BrewDog founder James Watt returns to brewing with Second Best, handing up to 19.3% of his new community-owned venture free to former Equity Punk investors wiped…
Morrisons is courting rival UK supermarkets to take supply from its Myton manufacturing arm, as the Bradford grocer battles a £3.1bn debt pile and £381m annual…
Ministers refuse to scrap the £2bn EPR packaging tax, threatening to push food inflation higher and putting £500m of UK glass-sector investment at risk.
Morrisons is closing 100 loss-making convenience stores, putting hundreds of jobs at risk, and has blamed Labour's "policy choices" for the rising costs eroding profitability.
UK public sector borrowing climbed to £24.3bn in April 2026, overshooting the OBR forecast, as Treasury debt interest payments hit a record £10.3bn for the month.