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  • 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

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

Brittany Ferries

Brexit ferry contracts could cost government millions more if March deadline is missed

16 March 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The government will be forced to spend tens of millions of additional costs to keep its no-deal ferry contracts in place if Brexit is delayed.

For sale board

This weekend is best time to sell your home to beat Brexit nightmare

16 March 201930 March 2022 News Business Matters 2 Comments

New research has highlighted that this weekend is the best day to list your home for sale for the best chance of beating the Brexit blues and finding a buyer.

Sir Philip Green

Sir Philip Green set to axe jobs and stores in vast Arcadia restructure

15 March 2019 News Business Matters 1 Comment

Sir Philip Green is set to close vast numbers of Top Shop, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge in a huge restructure of his Arcadia retail empire, it is reported.

interserve

Interserve expected to go into administration as outsourcing giant loses rescue vote

15 March 20198 June 2023 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Outsourcing giant Interserve has failed to persuade shareholders to approve a rescue plan for the company.

research and development

Government must increase R&D investment to reach its target, says TUC

15 March 2019 News Business Matters 1 Comment

New figures on R&D investment, published by the Office for National Statistics, show that the UK continues to trail a long way behind its competitors, says the TUC.

holiday allowance

Government has launched its first holiday pay advertising campaign

15 March 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

In the UK 1.8 million people are not receiving the holiday pay they are entitled to, resulting in them missing out on an estimated £1.8 billion each year.

Jacqueline Gold CBE

Jacqueline Gold CBE wins Retail Week Retail Award Activist award

15 March 201915 March 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Jacqueline Gold CBE was the proud winner of Retail Week’s first ever Retail Activist Award last night at the annual Retail Week Awards 2019.

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UK companies told women must make up third of senior directors by 2020

15 March 2019 News Business Matters 1 Comment

Dozens of firms, including Domino’s Pizza, JD Sports and Greene King have been told to put more women in their boardrooms.

JD Wetherspoon

Wetherspoon’s profits plunge by 19%

15 March 2019 News Business Matters 1 Comment

Profits at UK pub chain JD Wetherspoon fell 19% in the six months to the end of January.

Debenhams

Debenhams set to consider Mike Ashley’s £150m loan offer

14 March 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Debenhams has said it will “give careful consideration” to Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct offer of a £150m loan.

Liam Gallagher Pretty Green

Liam Gallagher’s Pretty Green fashion company could be going into administration

13 March 2019 News Business Matters 2 Comments

Pretty Green has called in advisers as it becomes the latest business to show signs of struggle amid the challenges that continue to plague the UK retail industry.

Carphone Warehouse

Dixons Carphone fined £29m for mis-selling insurance

13 March 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Dixons Carphone has been fined £29.1m by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), for mis-selling technical support and mobile phone insurance, known as “Geek Squad.”

spotify

Spotify reports Apple to EU commission over rules which ‘disadvantage’ app developers

13 March 20197 January 2020 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Spotify fired a broadside at Apple today as it reported its rival to the EU competition authorities over the way that the tech giant’s App Store works.

shipping

Government announces most imports tariff-free under no-deal plan

13 March 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The government has announced that most imports into the UK would not attract a tariff in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

2018-Winners

Veuve Clicquot Business Women Awards unveil 2019 shortlist

13 March 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The finalists for the 2019 Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award have been announced.

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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

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

Burnham’s business rates adviser called for £9bn tax cut for high streets

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