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  • 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
  • Young investors trust AI more than TV, radio or influencers, FCA finds
  • UK business confidence rebounds but firms want policy certainty first
  • Balcony solar panels reach UK shelves with promise of £110 a year off bills
  • Applied Nutrition closes in on £1bn valuation after raising guidance for third time this year
  • One of Britain’s oldest family firms to save £250,000 a year as energy scheme opens to forges

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A picture’s worth 1000 words, but a tweet could be worth £160,000

23 May 2016 News Business Matters 0 Comments

To celebrate the launch of their new video, Eyetease, the company famed for bringing digital advertising technology to the roofs of London taxis, will be giving away £160,000 worth of free advertising on over 400 taxitop screens in London, in partnership with Verifone Media.

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Small firms spend four days per month battling red tape

20 May 201623 May 2016 News Business Matters 1 Comment

Over half of smaller business owners say their company’s growth is being held back by the amount of time they have to dedicate to business administration, according to new research.

Karren Brady

UK Businesses uninfluenced by celebrity campaigners in brexit debate

20 May 2016 News Business Matters 1 Comment

A survey of UK entrepreneurs and business owners has revealed that they aren’t interested in which politicians or personalities come out in support of the remain or leave sides.

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Contactless cards get a new fan base: The over-60s

20 May 20164 March 2024 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Britons over the age of 60 are the fastest growing group of people taking to contactless card payments, according to Barclaycard.

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SMEs see benefit from apprentices with over half offered full time roles

19 May 201623 May 2016 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Research from the Association of Accounting Technicians (ATT) found that 175,000 of small businesses have kept on at least half of their apprentices after the training period

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Tax man turns probe on the rich, famous & entrepreneurs to find unpaid tax

17 May 201617 May 2016 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Sports stars, celebrities and wealthy entrepreneurs can look forward to more scrutiny of their finances from by the tax man.

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HMRC urged to postpone quarterly digital reporting by at least a year

17 May 2016 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) is calling on HMRC to postpone the introduction of quarterly digital reporting by at least a year after the announcement of a delay to the consultation process because of the EU referendum.

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Turning prisoners into entrepreneurs could save £1.4 billion per annum

17 May 201617 May 2016 News Business Matters 0 Comments

A new report suggests that making an entrepreneurship programme available to all pre-release prisoners could save the government up to £1.4 billion annually, at the maximum cost of £82 million – providing a 17x return on investment

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Farming, teaching & pharma are UK’s proudest professions, new study reveals

16 May 201616 May 2016 News Business Matters 0 Comments

If you want professional pride, get out of the office, avoid customers and start producing something with your hands. At least, those are the findings of a new study into professional pride across the UK’s largest industries.

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Brexit & removal of Brussels red tape will help us create jobs, say top business chiefs

16 May 2016 News Business Matters 0 Comments

As the EU referendum draws nearer it has been announced that the value of exports from Britain to the EU has plummeted by a fifth over the past decade with leave campaigners saying that the figures proved the ‘failure’ of the single market whilst the remain camp insists access to trading bloc was vital to economic success

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MPs warn of workplace pension scheme risks

15 May 201616 May 2016 News Business Matters 0 Comments

MPs have raised concerns over millions of people’s pensions which may fall through a gap in regulation.

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Government launches review to help BME workers progress in their careers

15 May 201616 May 2016 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Government is seeking evidence on economic and personal impact on why black and minority ethnic (BME) people find it more difficult to progress into managerial and senior positions than their white counterparts.

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The hunt is on to find Britain’s best manufacturer

15 May 2016 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The hunt to find Britain’s best manufacturers is on. EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, is launching the 8th annual Future Manufacturing Awards, designed to find Britain’s unsung manufacturing heroes and most outstanding apprentices.

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Commonwealth businesses say UK remaining in EU is mutually beneficial

15 May 2016 News Business Matters 1 Comment

Commonwealth business leaders, speaking on behalf of firms from Commonwealth countries across the globe, have said that membership of the EU makes the UK a more attractive place to invest and helps make the EU more outward looking.

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Bank of England holds Interest rate steady & warns Brexit could lead to UK recession

12 May 2016 News Business Matters 3 Comments

Bank of England holds Interest Rates steady with Governor Mark Carney warning that a Brexit could create a UK wide recession

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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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