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International BMX sales lead brothers from Hastings to Buckingham Palace

23 April 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Two brothers from Hastings in East Sussex with a lifelong passion for BMX bikes have received a top industry award for turning a business once based in their bedroom into the largest BMX retailer in the world.

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Consumer finance expert Martin Lewis to sue Facebook over scam adverts

23 April 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Lewis, founder of consumer site Money Saving Expert, is set to bring High Court proceedings for a campaigning defamation lawsuit against Facebook.

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Research reveals new ‘cookie law’ could see brands lose more than 40% of web traffic

20 April 201830 April 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

A new international study in the UK and France has found 30 per cent plan to reduce the amount of cookie-based display, paid search and retargeting they carry out in the immediate aftermath of the new ePrivacy regulation.

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Australian startup Control Bionics wins Pitch@Palace Commonwealth

19 April 20186 April 2022 News, Success stories Business Matters 0 Comments

Last night, The Duke of York announced Control Bionics, an Entrepreneur from Australia, as the winner of the inaugural Pitch@Palace Commonwealth.

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INVEST Essex lends support to Young Enterprise County Final

19 April 2018 Get Funded, News Business Matters 0 Comments

INVEST Essex, the investment promotion and business support agency, is backing the Young Enterprise Essex Company of the Year County Final 2018 by sponsoring the competition’s Best Presentation Award.

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SMEs flock to join Forum of Private Business after Brexit vote

19 April 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Forum Managing Director, Ian Cass, says the surge, which now means there are more than 30,000 members, cannot simply be explained by Brexit uncertainty alone.

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Taxman apologises for pensions blunder as HMRC forced to remove relief calculator from website

18 April 201818 April 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

​Pension experts slam HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for failing to take down flawed tax relief calculator, despite knowing it was providing incorrect advice.

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Will.i.am joins jury for $1M tech startup competition

18 April 20184 March 2024 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Tech entrepreneur and creative innovator will.i.am has been announced as a judge for the Chivas Venture – a global competition that gives away $1 million in no-strings funding every year to the world’s most promising social startups.

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More people than ever searching for, and shouting about local favourites online

18 April 201818 April 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Thanks to social media, shopping habits are seemingly returning to days of old, with more people than ever making the effort to get out, explore their local area and find ‘hidden gems’, according to new research.

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Average young Brits buy products seen on social media 3 times a month

17 April 201814 December 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Facebook, Instagram and YouTube emerged as the most common places customers are first introduced to products they purchase, with the average monthly spend equating to £84, or £1,008 a year.

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Fifteen major high street names have closed their doors in past 12 months

16 April 201816 April 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Fifteen major retailers or restaurant groups have gone into CVA or administration in the twelve months since the April 2017 Business Rates Revaluation, with ten of them since the beginning of this year- in the last three and a half months alone.

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New stores are opening on UK high streets at lowest rate in seven years

16 April 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The Local Data Company, which studied the top 500 British town centres, found there were 4,083 new store openings in 2017, the lowest since 2010.

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Poor company culture is costing UK economy £23.6 billion a year

16 April 201823 October 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

A new report has revealed a third of Brits who quit their job, did so because of company culture.

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Are work dress codes becoming more relaxed than ever?

16 April 201824 June 2023 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The Western trend of ‘casual Fridays’, also known as ‘dress down Fridays’ has been widely adopted by many UK businesses for several years, with some now taking on this more relaxed approach five days a week.

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Pub chain Wetherspoon shuts down all its social media accounts

16 April 2018 News, Social Media Business Matters 0 Comments

Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has announced that it is quitting social media.

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Call blocker firm fined £190,000 for making the nuisance calls it claimed to stop

A company that sold devices promising to protect elderly people from nuisance calls has been fined £190,000 by the ICO for making more than 758,000 of them itself, every one to a number registered with the Telephone Preference Service.

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