Business Matters - The UKs largest Business Magazine
NFU Banner ad
30 Must Read Articles
  • News
  • Advice
  • Finance
  • Legal
  • Opinion
  • In Business
  • Technology
  • AI
  • Get Funded
  • Profiles

Latest News:

  • Cost of new government borrowing nears 30-year high as October budget looms
  • easyJet heads back into the FTSE 100 as Entain, Aston Martin and Persimmon face the drop
  • Scan.com raises $220m to fund US push ahead of flotation talks
  • Vodafone, Heathrow and JCB head to Reform UK conference as party woos business
  • Allica Bank applies for Swedish banking licence in first move beyond the UK
  • Call blocker firm fined £190,000 for making the nuisance calls it claimed to stop
  • Burnham’s business rates adviser called for £9bn tax cut for high streets
  • Colman’s Mustard put up for sale as Unilever clears path for £48bn McCormick merger
  • Britain’s 240 crypto millionaires revealed in first HMRC cryptoasset tax data
  • EY urges junior staff back to the office as AI puts a premium on human skills

Category: News

The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK

UK economic growth bounced back in January as the effects of the Omicron coronavirus variant began to ease, official figures show.

Post covid footfall gains are wiped out as shoppers stay at home

4 August 2022 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Footfall across retail destinations in Britain fell last month to 14.2 per cent below the 2019 level, wiping out all the gains made since April.

British workers will suffer the biggest drop in take-home pay on record, the Bank of England has warned, as record energy prices drastically eat into living standards.

Prepare for 15% inflation next year, Britain warned

4 August 2022 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Inflation could reach 15 per cent early next year, a leading think tank warned yesterday, as soaring gas prices exacerbate the UK’s cost of living crisis.

Adverts for two funeral providers have been banned after they misleadingly implied that their MDF coffins were more eco-friendly than other options.

Ads for two UK funeral firms banned over ‘misleading’ eco-friendly claims

4 August 2022 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Adverts for two funeral providers have been banned after they misleadingly implied that their MDF coffins were more eco-friendly than other options.

Despite a return to normal for many economies in 2022, insolvencies are set to rise according to a new report.

Company insolvencies at highest rate for a decade

3 August 2022 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The number of British companies filing for insolvency hit its highest level in a decade last quarter as businesses struggled after Covid support was lost.

Airbnb

Long-term stays boost for Airbnb

3 August 2022 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Airbnb last night forecast third-quarter revenue above estimates and announced a $2 billion share buyback, its first since going public, as pandemic-weary travellers make the most of the summer.

More than 400,000 small businesses could go under because customers are failing to pay their bills on time, a survey has warned.

Inflation and tax rises will leave 5.3m with no savings, says think tank

3 August 2022 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Inflation and a growing tax burden will lead to 5.3 million people having no savings by 2024, equal to one in five of all households, a leading economic think tank has said.

The creation of an official digital currency in Britain could increase the risk of a run on the banks in an economic downturn, an influential House of Lords committee has found.

UK economy grows but fears remain over rising prices

2 August 2022 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The UK economy rebounded in May after shrinking in April and March, official figures show.

House prices unexpectedly returned to double digit growth last month as the property market kept up its "extremely buoyant" pace, new figures show.

House prices climb 11% despite cost of living squeeze

2 August 2022 News Business Matters 0 Comments

House prices are continuing to rise despite the growing cost of living crisis.

Toyota to leave UK if government bans hybrids

Toyota to leave UK if government bans hybrid car sales from 2030

2 August 2022 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Toyota has threatened to stop manufacturing in the UK if the government goes ahead with its plans to ban the sale of hybrid cars from 2030.

One in six UK employees feel worried that raising mental health concerns with their company could put them at risk of losing their job, a new report into employee mental health and remote working has found.

Insolvencies surge to highest rates since financial crash as voluntary bankruptcies hit record levels

2 August 2022 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The UK government’s Insolvency Service today said it recorded a higher number of insolvencies over the past three months than at any other point in more than a decade

Dover

Thousands of UK businesses could face ‘significant delays’ in customs system shift

2 August 2022 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Thousands of UK businesses risk “significant delays” to importing goods if they fail to move to the country’s new customs system before autumn, the government has warned.

Household energy bills will remain historically elevated into 2024, revealed Cornwall Insight, meaning the cost of living crisis will not be easing for Brits any time soon.

Ultra-high energy bills are here to stay

2 August 2022 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Household energy bills will remain historically elevated into 2024, revealed Cornwall Insight, meaning the cost of living crisis will not be easing for Brits any time soon.

BP has reported massive profits for the three months to June after oil and gas prices soared.

BP reports huge profits as energy bills soar

2 August 2022 News Business Matters 0 Comments

BP has reported massive profits for the three months to June after oil and gas prices soared.

Liz Truss

Liz Truss pledges civil service pay shake-up

2 August 2022 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Liz Truss has said she wants to save taxpayers’ money by scrapping diversity roles and ending national pay deals.

parked out of use British Airways aeroplanes stored at Bournemouth International Airport, Dorset during the Coronavirus crisis

British Airways suspends Heathrow short-haul ticket sales

2 August 2022 News Business Matters 0 Comments

British Airways has suspended ticket sales on short-haul flights from Heathrow until 8 August after the London airport’s decision to cap capacity and tackle widespread disruption and cancellations.

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 364 365 366 … 1,153 Next

Search our site

Latest Content

The government is paying more to borrow through newly issued debt than at almost any point in the past three decades, a reminder of the tough fiscal backdrop against which prime minister Andy Burnham and chancellor John Healey are drawing up their first budget, now less than two months away.

Cost of new government borrowing nears 30-year high as October budget looms

UK borrowing costs are close to their highest level in almost three decades, with newly issued government debt yielding an average of 3.8 per cent this year, as Andy Burnham and John Healey prepare a first budget already clouded by talk of tax rises.

easyJet heads back into the FTSE 100 as Entain, Aston Martin and Persimmon face the drop

Scan.com raises $220m to fund US push ahead of flotation talks

Vodafone, Heathrow and JCB head to Reform UK conference as party woos business

Allica Bank applies for Swedish banking licence in first move beyond the UK

Self-Employed American Expats Still Need to File U.S. Taxes

Turning Workplace Safety from a Compliance Exercise into a Business Advantage

Call blocker firm fined £190,000 for making the nuisance calls it claimed to stop

The Capital Business Media Group

Home

  • About us
  • Business Matters Podcast
  • Contact us
  • Advertise with us
  • Subscribe to our magazine
  • Subscribe to our newsletters

More from the CBM Group

  • Travelling For Business
  • EV Powered
  • Electric Home
  • Property Portfolio Investor
  • Not Ltd
Copyright © 2026 The Business Matters Brand Ltd - A Capital Business Media Company • Registered Office: 7 Bell Yard, London WC2A 2JR
  • Terms
  • Our Privacy Policy
  • Cookies
top