The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
The services sector contracted last month at its fastest pace since May as businesses struggled under the strain of a third nationwide lockdown, according to a…
Online casinos will be forced to overhaul slot machine games to slow them down and remove features that cause players to lose track of how much…
The City watchdog will be given powers to regulate “buy now, pay later” firms such as Klarna and Clearpay, amid fears that a surge in their…
House prices in the UK fell in January for the first time since June, as demand eased before the end of the stamp duty holiday on…
The UK’s advertising watchdog has banned Ryanair’s controversial “jab and go” holiday TV campaign, saying it encouraged the public to act irresponsibly once they have received…
Rishi Sunak has been warned by the leaders of Britain’s most influential business groups and the trade union movement that he risks plunging Britain into a…
Jeff Bezos is preparing to stand aside as chief executive of Amazon after it beat Wall Street’s high expectations last night with record quarterly sales and…
The hospitality industry is going through “carnage” and needs more government help.
A post-Brexit review of workers' rights will not go ahead, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has said.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has agreed to tie his own hands at next month’s Budget by sticking with the Conservatives’ “triple tax lock”, which stops him raising…
The UK’s £35bn fashion and textile industry is facing “decimation” as a result of red tape and travel restrictions thrown up by the new post-Brexit trade…
Online fashion retailer Asos has bought the Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands from failed retail group Arcadia in a deal worth £295m.
Britain’s online shopping habit has hit a stumbling block. A boom in home deliveries has sparked a national cardboard shortage, delaying deliveries of everything from bicycles…
Hospital pressure will not ease enough to allow the reopening of pubs and restaurants until May if this year follows the same trajectory as last spring,…
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have agreed an “endemic recovery plan” to put Britain back on its feet after the immediate coronavirus crisis, as a poll…