Category: News

Conflicting pressures from their business needs and family lifestyles force SME owners to live a double life, separating business stresses from family and personal wellbeing – trying not to let either bubble over into the other.

Business champion Burnley Savings and Loans Limited (“BSAL”), also known as “Bank on Dave!”, has taken another step towards becoming the first UK owned high-street bank in 120 years and today are announcing a £2.5 million funding round on equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs.

UK and Europe’s SMEs are in danger of falling victim to digital disruption, regulatory requirements and economic shifts that are fundamentally changing their markets.

Official figures show that male financial directors earn, on average, almost £30,000 a year more than their female counterparts.

Two former directors at Tesco have gone on trial, accused of manipulating figures that resulted in the firm’s profits being overstated by £250m.

Google is shutting down much of its social network, Google+, after user data was left exposed.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is planning a two week shutdown of its Solihull plant at the end of October.

PayPal’s UK subsidiary has agreed to pay an extra £3.1m in tax following a review by HMRC.

Facebook’s UK tax bill has tripled to £15.8m – but the social media giant will see an immediate cut because of a tax credit.

Unilever, which makes Marmite and Dove soap, has scrapped its plan to move its headquarters to the Netherlands after growing criticism from investors.

Mercedes-Benz had been considering moving production to the UK ahead of the EU referendum in 2016, but decided against the move after the vote for Brexit, the carmaker’s chief executive has revealed.

Government-backed programme has provided more than 58,000 loans to start-ups and early stage businesses since 2012

Online retailing giant Amazon is raising pay for hundreds of thousands of workers in the US and the UK.

Fuel duty will be frozen for ninth year in a row, Prime Minister Theresa May will say in speech to Conservative party conference in Birmingham