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Poorly designed and inadequately maintained workplaces are draining the UK economy of more than £71 billion a year, according to new research from facilities and security services company Mitie.

From Handshake to Signed Deal: Streamlining the Sales Process for Growing UK Businesses

15 June 202616 June 2026 Business Business Matters 0 Comments

There’s a moment in every B2B sale where the energy shifts. The conversations have gone well, the decision-maker is ready, and both sides want to move forward. Then someone has to produce a contract.

The separate tax controversies involving Premier League footballers and former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner should serve as a “wake-up call” about the importance of taking sound, professional advice, a senior tax expert has warned.

The 2026 World Cup and JD Sports: How Tournaments Drive Sales 

11 June 202614 June 2026 Business Business Matters 0 Comments

The World Cup – which takes place every four years – means many things. It creates a sense of national unity for the summer period, it leads to crowded pubs and bars, and it significantly increases revenue for specific industries.

In the eyes of a potential customer, what differentiates your brand from that of any other construction business?

Top Salesforce Marketing Cloud Consulting Companies for AI-Driven Customer Engagement in 2026

4 June 20266 June 2026 Business Business Matters 0 Comments

Generic marketing is becoming easier to spot – and easier to ignore. Most customers don’t care how sophisticated a company’s tech stack is.

Protests are underway at Amazon warehouses across the UK as voting begins in a historic ballot for workers' rights. If successful, Amazon will be forced to recognise a union for the first time in the UK.

Amazon’s UK tax bill tops £1.3bn as employer NI hike and £30bn sales drive the total higher

27 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Amazon’s UK tax bill jumps 20% to more than £1.3bn after the employer national insurance rise and stronger sales — but campaigners want a clearer breakdown.

The share of new-build homes snapped up "off plan" before a single brick is laid has tumbled to its lowest level in more than a decade, in a fresh blow to the government's ambition of delivering 1.5 million homes by the end of this parliament.

Off-plan new home sales slump to 12-year low as landlords retreat and rates bite

12 May 2026 In Business Jamie Young 0 Comments

Off-plan new home sales in England and Wales fall to a 12-year low at 33% as buy-to-let landlords retreat, interest rates bite and build costs surge by £76,000 per home.

Britain's second-hand electric vehicle market has shifted into a higher gear, with sales of used battery-electric cars climbing to a record high in the opening quarter of the year as buyers wrestling with stubbornly high pump prices reassess the cost of motoring.

Used electric car sales accelerate to record quarter as motorists seek shelter from forecourt pain

12 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Used pure-electric car sales surged 32% to a record 86,943 in Q1, the SMMT reports, as soaring petrol prices and wider model choice tempt British motorists to switch.

Why Rethinking Sales Helped Shape His Career

Abraham Pinchuck Built Success by Changing How Sales Works

6 May 20266 May 2026 In Business Business Matters 0 Comments

Why Rethinking Sales Helped Shape His Career

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Harpin-backed Flooring Superstore weighs restructure as sales slip

27 April 2026 In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Sir Richard Harpin’s £5m-backed flooring chain has called in Begbies Traynor and Santander’s restructuring division as falling demand and rising costs put 300 jobs and 50 stores on the line.

Tesla’s grip on the European electric vehicle market weakened dramatically last month, with new figures showing a 49 per cent drop in sales across 32 European countries compared with April 2024 — a sharp contrast to the overall EV sector, which posted a 28 per cent year-on-year rise.

Tesla accelerates European comeback as EV sales surge past one-in-five milestone

23 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Tesla sales jump 84% in Europe as electric vehicles now account for more than one in five new cars registered. Germany overtakes UK on EV penetration.

Sales reps spend an average of eight hours per week on post-call admin. That's a full working day lost to writing up notes, updating the CRM, and chasing action items before they've made a single new call.

5 Best AI Note Takers for Sales Calls in 2026

23 April 202623 April 2026 Business Business Matters 0 Comments

Sales reps spend an average of eight hours per week on post-call admin. That’s a full working day lost to writing up notes, updating the CRM, and chasing action items before they’ve made a single new call.

Almost half of shoppers plan to rein in their Christmas spending this year, with a sharp jump in the proportion of people worried about the impact on their finances, new research has found.

UK retail sales fall as shoppers tighten spending ahead of energy shock

30 March 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

UK retail sales fell 0.4% in February as shoppers cut spending, with economists warning the Iran war could further weaken demand and confidence.

Cleaning used to be simple. Grab a vacuum, chase the crumbs, call it a day. In 2025, that sounds almost quaint. Homes get busier, floors get messier, and patience runs out fast.

Dyson hit by £440m sales drop as Trump tariffs bite

27 March 2026 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Dyson reports £440m sales decline due to US tariffs and weak demand, but profits rise after cost cuts and continued investment in innovation.

Exceptional women from across the UK technology sector have been honoured at the annual Salesforce everywoman in Technology Awards, recognising innovation, leadership and impact at every stage of the career ladder.

Tech trailblazers recognised at Salesforce Everywoman Awards

24 March 2026 In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

The Salesforce everywoman in Technology Awards 2026 celebrate outstanding women in tech, highlighting innovation, leadership and diversity across the sector.

New car sales in the UK surged to their highest February level in more than two decades, highlighting continued recovery in the automotive market. However, industry figures show the transition to electric vehicles is losing momentum, with the market share of fully electric cars falling for the second consecutive month.

New car sales hit 20-year high as electric vehicle share shrinks

5 March 2026 News Jamie Young 0 Comments

UK new car registrations topped 90,000 in February, the highest for the month in more than 20 years, but electric vehicle market share slipped again, raising concerns about EV adoption targets.

Channel 4’s commercial division, Channel 4 Sales, has announced the return of its B Corp competition for a second year, offering purpose-driven UK businesses the chance to win a share of £600,000 worth of national TV advertising airtime.

Channel 4 Sales relaunches B Corp competition offering £600,000 in TV advertising for sustainable businesses

4 March 20264 March 2026 In Business, Marketing Jamie Young 0 Comments

Channel 4 Sales has opened entries for its 2026 B Corp competition, offering £600,000 in free TV advertising to five UK B Corp businesses to boost national awareness and growth.

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Opinion

Ministers have set the UK on course to bar under-16s from mainstream social media, but the business and technology figures who will have to live with the policy are far from convinced it will work.

Under-16s social media ban branded ‘impractical, illiberal and undesirable’ as industry rounds on government

Scott Pelley fired from 60 Minutes: the next domino in the fall of American journalism

Rural Britain isn’t a backdrop. It’s a £315 billion economy, and it deserves a national stage

Technology

Taxi drivers, stockbrokers and the bloke propping up the bar at your local have all, at one time or another, served as a source of share tips. Now there is a fresh seam of supposed wisdom for retail investors to mine: chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude.

Can AI chatbots really pick stock market winners?

Apple is preparing to raise the price of its products to absorb the soaring cost of memory and storage chips, chief executive Tim Cook has confirmed in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, in the clearest signal yet that the artificial-intelligence boom is now landing squarely in the consumer's pocket.

Tim Cook says Apple price rises are ‘unavoidable’ as memory chip crunch bites

Jeff Bezos has thrown his weight behind one of Cambridge's most closely watched artificial intelligence ventures, joining a $400 million fundraising that values materials-discovery specialist CuspAI at $2.6 billion.

Bezos bets on Cambridge as Cuspai’s AI materials hunt hits $2.6bn

Business

The gaming industry, a $297 billion titan in 2025, is fueling a new wave of digital commerce through online marketplaces where players trade accounts and in-game items.

How British iGaming Startups Are Scaling Up and Taking On the World

Somewhere in a co-working space in Manchester, a four-person team is huddled around a laptop, watching their newly built game lobby load for the first time on a test handset.

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