Category: News

China’s Hutchison Whampoa Ltd has agreed to buy Telefonica’s British mobile unit O2 for up to £10.25 billion pounds, hastening the consolidation of Britain’s telecoms industry.

Designer Kelly Hoppen has announced she is quitting BBC Two’s Dragons’ Den after two series.

A former “Entrepreneur of the Year” and five others have appeared in court accused of orchestrating a £142m fraud.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has announced it will start to suggest peer-to-peer lending to rejected business loan applicants.

Aldermore, the self-procliamed specialist SME bank has revealed that its asset finance portfolio has exceeded £1 billion.

Former Rugby Union star Mike Cawthorn is channelling his performance improvement expertise into a new company aimed at helping accelerate businesses performance through better use of technology.

Yorkshire-based hydraulic engineering firm, Advanced Actuators has partnered with the University of Bradford to take part in one of the UK’s largest graduate recruitment schemes.

British workers have highlighted the importance of a simple thank you in the workplace, revealing that ‘feeling valued’ by their boss is the top motivational factor in helping them achieve more during their nine to five.

According to the governments Business Population Estimates, there were 5.2 million SMEs in the UK in 2014. The government pledged that by 2015 that 25% of their direct and indirect spend would go to SMEs, but as a nation are we doing enough to help promote small business?

David Cameron will vow today to expand the Start-Up Loans scheme so that an extra 50,000 budding entrepreneurs to set up new companies before the end of the next Parliamentary term with a reported £300million of loan capital being made available.

Mike Kelly, head of Living Wage at KPMG comments on the Households below a Minimum Income Standard 2008/09 to 2012/13 report published today

Former CBI director general Lord Digby Jones visited Merseyside to promote a new form of working capital funding for small firms.

Chancellor George Osborne has launched a consultation on tax credits for research and development – so small firms have the best government support to invest in innovation.

SMEs are missing out on a wealth of public sector contract opportunities and are being urged to revise their outdated view of a system they see as overly complicated

Professor Stephen Bevan has received the 2014 GAMIAN-Europe European Personality award. It has been awarded for his prominent contribution to the field of mental health.