The Best Companies 2010 two star accreditation status has been awarded to serviced office group, Avanta, in acknowledgment of excellence in the workplace.
Category: In Business
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BarclayCard adds JustGiving and charity offering to new card
JustGiving announced to be the charity partner for the newly launched Barclaycard Freedom rewards programme.
Council clients might not be the best at paying on time
A nationwide study by the Forum of Private Business (FPB) has found that some councils in the UK are still failing to pay invoices promptly. Struggling firms face a ‘postcode lottery’ meaning their chances of prompt payment often depend on where they are based.
Exactly how do i launch my business?
Anyone with a good idea and adequate common sense can start a business, but establishing and growing it is another matter.
In the current climate, where money lending has all but dried up, orders are falling, and firms are trimming all the fat possible by cutting costs, the hard part is often working out how to grow your business.
Franchising may be the way forward
Most people associate franchising with large brands, but it can also be an effective way for some smaller businesses, struggling to raise finance
Are you properly insured if you change your business plan?
As businesses focus on ‘the road to recovery’, amending their business plans to ensure their continued success in 2010, Premierline Direct, the business insurance specialist, is highlighting how changes to plans may impact on the business’ insurance policy.
Six out of ten business owners freeze pay – their own!
Small business owners are taking the lead to ensure their firms stay afloat despite the recession, new research shows. The nationwide survey of businesses with a turnover of up to £1 million shows that 59 per cent of business owners have frozen their pay in the past year, while just 33 per cent have frozen the pay of staff.
Free course to help smaller firms win government contracts
A free online public procurement course designed to help smaller firms bid for the £220 billion of public sector contracts awarded each year was today launched jointly by Small Business Minister Lord Davies and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liam Byrne.
Training & jobs guarantee for every out of work young person
From today every young person who is unemployed for six months will be guaranteed the offer of a job, training or work experience, supported by up to 470,000 opportunities over the next 15 months through the Government’s Young Person’s Guarantee.
2010 is the year of the mumpreneur
One in ten mums surveyed by Netmums and BT Business, aspire to have their own business, with one in 5 looking to have more flexibility on choosing the hours they work.
Entrepreneurs, Inventors, Designers- Britain’s High Street Wants You!
Have you invented the next Dyson vacuum cleaner? Concocted a successor to Innocent Smoothies? Discovered the next Protect and Perfect face cream? Then the BBC wants to hear from you!
Channel 5 to launch a Small Business Series
Are you a small business with big goals? Are you frustrated by the speed of your company’s growth? Would you like someone to inject some energy into your trade?
Are you a Dragon tamer in need of investment?
Do you have a killer idea or a ‘must-have’ product of the future ready for investment? Do you have the powers of persuasion needed to part Dragons from their cash? Well the BBC has opened the application process for the next series of Dragons’ Den.
8.4 Million Brits lie awake dreading return to work
Huge numbers of Britons dreaded the first day back at work after the Christmas and New Year break because employers are piling on the pressure. Companies desperate to stay ahead as the recession bit last year are keeping people at work longer and increasing workloads, causing 8.4 million Brits to lose sleep in the past year, according to a study by insurer RSA and You Gov. RSA has dubbed the phenomenon has WAWAW – wide awake worrying about work.
Do you know where your stopcock is?
Thousands of businesses at threat from winter water damage – from inside the building as one in five business owners and managers do not know how to turn the water off!
Businesses are being urged to protect themselves from the effects of internal water damage this winter following new research released today. As many as 20-30 per cent of insurance property claims costs are for escape of water from inside the building1, with the most common being from the effects of a burst pipe.
