Category: News

A £1 million competition to help small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) drive motorsport technologies around the world has been put on the starting grid by Universities and Science Minister David Willetts.

UK SMEs are optimistic about their prospects this year with more than a quarter expecting double digit growth for 2013, a survey reveals.

British businesses received £4.3 billion worth of support from the government through UK Export Finance in 2012-13, the highest figure in 12 years according to new published data.

Labour peer and producer of the Oscar winning Chariots of Fire film, Lord Puttnam has called for a taxation on online gambling to help fund UK arts.

There is a stubborn shortage in the skills the UK needs to remain competitive and fuel long-term growth, according to the annual CBI/Pearson Education and Skills survey published today.

The upmarket furniture chain Dwell has closed all its stores and ceased trading both on the High Street and online with immediate effect, with the loss of 300 jobs.

Ian Livingston, the chief executive of BT, will step down in September to join the Government as trade and investment minister, it has been announced.

Ever feel like you’re in the wrong job? If so don’t panic – it appears you’re in good company.

More than a quarter of the UK’s small business owners say that the world economy they most respect is that of Germany, according to results of the latest Close Brothers Business Barometer.

Senior bankers guilty of reckless misconduct should be jailed, a long-awaited report on banking commissioned by the government has recommended.

The proportion of employers reporting an increase in competition for well-qualified talent has risen threefold from 20 per cent in 2009 to 62 per cent in 2013. That’s according to the CIPD/Hays Resourcing and Talent Planning Survey 2013, launched today at the CIPD’s annual Recruitment conference in London.

Two companies which appear in BBC Three series The Call Centre have been issued with fines related to nuisance calls.

Governments worldwide should clamp down on illegal tax evasion by automatically sharing tax data, an international body has told the G8 summit.

Prime minister claims EU-US deal could create 2m jobs but anti-poverty activists warn that it could sow seeds of next crisis

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced plans for what could be “the biggest bilateral trade deal in history” between the EU and the US.