The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Skillpages, an online marketplace for local skills founded back in 2010 and backed by Michael Smurfit, has been acquired by Bark.com, which focuses on attacking the same problem from the other way round: i.e. pushing skill-seekers’ requests to providers, rather than providing a skills listing platform.
A pilot scheme to put employers in touch with sixth formers seeking to undertake a work experience placement has been launched by the Federation of Small Businesses in Stockport.
John Lewis Partnership, one of the UKs largest employee owned companies, has hosted the inaugural Inspire EO conference, aimed at providing an insight into the benefits of giving private and public sector employees a stake in their business.
The Prime Minister David Cameron today welcomed the launch of Tech Nation, the first comprehensive analysis of the UK’s digital technology clusters.
The public vote for the GREAT Faces of British Business competition is now open, following the shortlist announcement this week with the top business set to win £30,000 worth of government support.
The UK tax system is costing businesses up to £10bn in hidden costs a year with SMEs bearing the majority of this burden according to new research by the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT).
Fleximize, the SME alternative finance company, has announced that it has now lent £4 million to SMEs since its launch in January 2014.
Seedrs, the prominent UK-based equity crowdfunding platform, today announced that it is hosting a campaign for the IPO of Burgundy vineyard Domaine Chanzy.
The Women’s Engineering Society and others have called on Vince Cable to introduce “returnship” schemes for women engineers who have taken maternity or career breaks, in the wake of a survey revealing just how many obstacles such women face.
The latest episode of Dragons’ Den saw Duncan Bannatyne get hand in glove with a £75,000 investment in an entrepreneur who has created the iGlove a means for using touchscreen smartphones and tablets in cold conditions, but is it a deal that both will be able to keep hold of?
According to the league table of the world’s biggest banks, The Brand Finance Banking 500, UK’s bank brands collectively lost 3 per cent of their value this year. NatWest, RBS and Nationwide all saw their brand values fall. Coutts was the worst affected; The Queen’s bank has lost 42 per cent of its brand value in a year.
A recent survey has revealed that there majority of entrepreneurs who are planning to go into business with family members will do so in 2015.
Hundreds of students have descended on Liverpool this weekend to attend the sixth Student Enterprise Conference 2015.
The number of Dragons’ declaring themselves out is growing as technology entrepreneur Piers Linney has announced he is joining Duncan Bannatyne and Kelly Hoppen in quitting the BBC TV business show.
Manufacturing firms have been invited to bid for a share of £1 million to boost UK innovation. The ‘Skills for Innovation in Manufacturing’ competition challenges firms to come up with new ways of developing the skills and business practices needed to maximise the value of innovation to the UK economy.
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