The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket chain, has announced it is to repay £585m of business rates relief it was awarded during the coronavirus pandemic.
Royal Mail is raising the price of a first-class stamp by an inflation-busting 9p to 85p.
Business software pioneer Salesforce.com is buying work-chatting service Slack for $27.7bn in a deal aimed at giving the two companies a better shot at competing against…
Caffè Nero could face a legal challenge despite winning backing from creditors to pursue a company voluntary arrangement.
A fire sale by Debenhams is expected to fuel a “Wild Wednesday” rush on the high street today as most retailers reopen for the first time…
House price growth accelerated last month to the highest level in almost six years but market activity is at risk of slowing sharply.
Boris Johnson is heading for a COVID showdown with rebel Tory MPs, despite being assured of victory in a Commons vote after Sir Keir Starmer said…
Shops will be given permission to trade around the clock as the high street tries to recoup some of the losses it has suffered during the…
Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia Group has collapsed into administration, putting 13,000 jobs at risk as the retail tycoon’s high street career ends in failure.
Mortgage approvals rose at their fastest rate in more than 13 years in October as the housing market powered on, fuelled by a cut to stamp…
Pubs, bars and restaurants in Wales will be banned from selling alcohol and forced to shut early, as the Welsh first minister said Covid was spreading…
A cross-party group of MPs is calling for the break-up of major high street banks, which they say are stifling competition and exploiting vulnerable customers.
Christmas trees are up already – and so are sales. Growers have sold 24% more trees so far this year than at the same time in…
Europe’s biggest battery storage project could be built in Essex after the government granted consent for the £200 million development.
Britain’s leading business lobby group “must change” as the country leaves the European Union and grapples with the economic cost of coronavirus, according to its new…