The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
NatWest is refunding £600,000 to more than 700 small and medium-sized businesses after it broke competition rules by forcing them to open fee-paying accounts to take…
The housing market continues to defy the wider economic gloom, with prices rising for the thirteenth month in a row last month.
Staff at nine train companies will take part in a 24-hour strike starting at midday on 26 September, the TSSA union has said.
The rapidly rising price of food including milk, margarine and crisps pushed August shop price inflation to the highest levels since 2008 as the war in…
Insolvencies across the manufacturing sector have soared by 63% since last year ahead of a wave of business failures expected this winter in response to rising…
Inflation in Britain could top 22 per cent on the back of high energy costs next year, Goldman Sachs has warned, as new data showed that…
The Co-operative Group has sold its petrol forecourts to Asda, the supermarket chain, for £600 million including liabilities.
The West Midlands has the potential for a £1.5bn a year manufacturing dividend, according to new analysis by the UK’s strategic hub for industrial research.
Over 30,000 BT Openreach engineers and 10,000 BT call centre workers are staging a walkout today over pay, as the summer of strike action continues.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday sued Idaho-based data broker Kochava for selling geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices that could…
Elon Musk has subpoenaed a former Twitter employee who has accused the social media company of poor spam policies and security vulnerabilities as the billionaire battles…
Pubs and brewers are at risk of closure amid price increases of more than 300 per cent, industry bosses of six of the country’s biggest pub…
Europe faces years of energy rationing without Russian gas, the boss of Shell has warned. Ben van Beurden said it was a “fantasy” to think that…
People struggling to heat their homes amid rising energy prices will be able to gather at art galleries, community centres and libraries earmarked as communal “warm…
Retailers saw an unexpected pick-up in sales last month, but the mood among companies was still its bleakest since the start of the pandemic, a survey…