The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Skills shortages are continuing to bite with firms identifying this as the top threat to the UK’s attractiveness as a place to do business for the…
Business leaders are calling for the taxman to spend more on helping companies cope with its own red tape and have warned that plans to make…
The UK’s largest independently owned invoice finance provider, Bibby Financial Services (“BFS”), has committed to increase its total funding for UK SMEs by over £290m.
Poor business planning could mean that the UKs small businesses will lose out on £25 billion in extra revenue in 2016, according to new research.
UK marketers have potentially misspent a large portion of the millions invested on Christmas campaigns as new data from SurveyMonkey reveals that while emotionally-charged ads create…
Despite being a national holiday, nearly one in five SME decision makers have had to go into work on Christmas Day, and nearly a third have…
Employers considering payrolling benefits need to tell HMRC by 21 December if they intend to make the switch in April 2016, to minimise the problems on…
A new educational record was set in 2015 as 532,000 young people were accepted into British universities and colleges, according to UCAS, a 3.1 per cent…
UK retail sales increased by 1.7% in November, helped by pre-Christmas spending, official statistics show.
Low-cost airline Norwegian is giving passengers an early Christmas present with the launch of the UK’s cheapest flights to San Francisco - fares from London Gatwick…
An almost 60 per cent increase in the number of people going to jail for tax evasion was yesterday put down to HMRC finding easy targets.
British companies are losing on average 23.5 days of productive time per employee each year as staff take time off sick and underperform in the office…
Work-life balance and colleagues taking holiday piles on the pressure, according to new research with nearly two out of five deciding to not attend their employer’s Christmas party
It is traditional at this time year in almost every business sector to look back on the year and think about what lessons were learned.
Downing Street fuelled speculation that the government is considering taking part of Rolls-Royce back into public ownership today when the Prime Minister’s official spokeswoman refused to…