Category: News

The City of London offers SMEs the cheapest gas and electricity prices, while Liverpool has the highest bills, according to a new report on the cost of running a business.

Innovative literacy initiative Pobble has secured £900,000 of new investment as part of its latest funding round to help develop the online platform’s capabilities and keep it at the forefront of educational technology.

New research reveals that British employees are, on the whole, happy at work, with a third feeling inspired to succeed every day and 70 per cent feeling positive more than three days a week.

Star of Dragons’ Den Peter Jones CBE has chosen eight teams of young entrepreneurs to attend a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace as finalists in Tycoon in Schools 2015.

The Federation of Small Businesses has expressed their anger with energy suppliers’ pledge to cut gas prices for residential tariffs whilst ignoring small businesses customers.

Business groups have backed proposals to overhaul maternity pay for the self-employed being suggested in the review of UKs army of sole business entrepreneurs by the woman behind the Cambridge Satchel Company.

Businesses and families will borrow more this year, a leading forecaster has predicted.

More than one million UK sole traders have been turned down for mainstream finance and almost a third have been rejected for a bank loan, according to new research.

New CBI analysis reveals that inaction on business rates, together with recent Government policy changes, including the National Living Wage and the Apprenticeship Levy, will cost businesses around £9 billion every year by 2020-21 and around £29 billion over the course of this Parliament.

UK banking giant HSBC has announced it is to keep its headquarters in London following a review into moving elsewhere.

Small businesses are increasingly resorting to the law to chase bad debt, according to new research with the number of county court judgments brought by small and medium-sized enterprises increased by 23 per cent from the first half of 2015 to the second.

Banks should offer flexible mortgages and other specialist products tailored to suit Britain’s self-employed workers and the Government should carry out a review of the way they are taxed, according to a Government-sponsored report being released today.

Start up flower kiosk and vending machine company expects sales to have increased sixfold this past Valentine’s weekend – a new record for the firm

HSBC has dropped plans to freeze the pay of thousands of branch staff this year after furious employees complained that they were not going to get the rises they had been promised.

Seventy one per cent of British Businesses do not believe David Cameron’s target of full employment will be achieved in the next five years, according to new research by leading UK job website, totaljobs.