The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Lloyds Bank has partnered with the School for Social Entrepreneurs to re-launch its social initiative offering entrepreneurs funding and mentoring in order to start and develop…
One of the UK’s leading small business advice hubs is urging entrepreneurs and small business owners with innovative ideas for new products to take advantage of…
Former military personnel can make the transition from the battlefield to business thanks to the new Enterprise Forces programme, launched by Manchester Metropolitan University Centre for…
FTSE350 companies have been challenged by Business Secretary Vince Cable and Lord Davies to seize the opportunity and increase the number of women in their boardrooms.
Online accounting pioneer launches new painless Self Assessment filing feature - and offers to pay £5k towards one lucky small business’s tax bill
The established underwear manufacturer Headen & Quarmby - which makes the Kinky Knickers brand created by Mary Portas - has had to shed more than 30…
A generation of renters could be left behind as the housing debate focuses on home ownership warned the CBI, as it called for action to boost…
Pushing up wages will “make sure that we have a recovery for all and that work pays,” Chancellor says, in a move apparently aimed at Labour…
Virgin Media Business is searching for three game-changing digital innovations that could transform the way we live and work for good.
UK businesses are starting 2014 with a call to government to support British manufacturing, following the sector’s encouraging performance in the last half of 2013.
Research from UK’s small businesses has found that more are confident about investing in their businesses than in the past few years, with over half saying…
The global economy is at a "turning point", the World Bank has said, as it forecasts stronger growth for 2014.
Figures released this week show that the UK inflation rate dropped to 2% in December 2013, hitting the target set by the Bank of England's forward…
Startup Institute, the career accelerator for people who want to work in startups or early-stage technology companies, is opening new schools in London and Berlin.
Small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK could be losing out on as much as £3.7billion each year through failing to submit or chase up invoices,…