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  • £11bn late payment crackdown risks ‘car crash’, ex-tsar warns
  • Burnham’s plan to scrap DSIT sparks tech industry revolt
  • Water fleas, moon tech and sewage-eating larvae win £100,000 apiece
  • Just 13% of firms expect taxes to fall under Labour’s new leader
  • Americans claim a third of the floor as record Farnborough opens
  • One in three small firms expect to shrink, sell up or close
  • Traders will pay to see Trump’s posts before you do
  • England’s semi-final gives pubs their biggest night of the World Cup
  • Rule out a wealth tax or own the exodus, Burnham warned
  • Ofcom investigates TikTok over ‘serious doubts’ its age checks work

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Early adopters lead on changing the culture of Britain’s boardrooms

4 December 2012 News Business Matters 0 Comments

In the 18 months since Lord Davies published his review into women on boards there has been encouraging progress. The number of women recruited to the boardrooms of the UK’s largest companies has increased and there has been a notable commitment by business to remove the obstacles preventing women making it to the boardroom.

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MOO Award for Britain’s Most Remarkable Entrepreneur goes to ColaLife

30 November 2012 News Business Matters 2 Comments

MOO.COM, the award winning online print business has announced the first ever winner of the MOO Award, in honour of its most unique, inspiring and remarkable customer.

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Early adopters lead on changing the culture of women in Britain’s boardrooms

30 November 20124 March 2013 News Business Matters 6 Comments

In the 18 months since Lord Davies published his review into women on boards there has been encouraging progress. The number of women recruited to the boardrooms of the UK’s largest companies has increased and there has been a notable commitment by business to remove the obstacles preventing women making it to the boardroom.

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Apple maps chief Richard Williamson leaves company

28 November 201223 October 2021 News Business Matters 1 Comment

Apple has parted company with the executive responsible for the new mapping service that forced the group to apologise to iPhone users, according to reports.

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Business schools ‘ignore’ mid-sized firms

28 November 2012 News Business Matters 0 Comments

A bias towards big companies within Britain’s business schools is “compromising growth” by ignoring the potential of mid-sized firms, a report has warned.

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Autumn Statement: ‘Shares for rights’ to be fast-tracked

28 November 2012 News Business Matters 2 Comments

Controversial proposals giving employees tax free shares in the companies employing them in return for surrendering workplace rights are expected to be pushed through as part of a package of small business measures in next week’s autumn statement.

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Bibby worker offered incentives to win fees from failing businesses

28 November 2012 News Business Matters 5 Comments

One of the UK’s leading lenders to small businesses attempted to identify struggling firms in order to profit from their subsequent collapse.

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CBI welcomes Doug Richard’s recommendations for apprenticeship changes

27 November 2012 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The CBI has welcomed the on independent reviewer Doug Richard’s recommendations for improving the apprenticeship system.

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New survey on pensions reveals most will stay in plans after auto enrolment

27 November 201227 November 2012 News Business Matters 0 Comments

New Government figures suggest most people will stay in a pension scheme and start saving for their old age under automatic enrolment.

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Blocked female talent pipeline losing UK business £5bn a year

27 November 201227 November 2012 News Business Matters 7 Comments

UK business could potentially benefit by £5bn a year if companies unblocked the talent pipeline for their 500,000 female middle managers a major new report suggests.

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Business insolvencies continue downward trend

26 November 201226 November 2012 News Business Matters 2 Comments

The latest BusinessIQ Insolvency Index from Experian, the global information services company, reveals an 8.7 per cent fall in the number of business insolvencies during October 2012, compared to the same month last year.

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Britain’s young strivers not afraid to start-up

23 November 2012 News Business Matters 1 Comment

A new survey has provided an insight into the future of British entrepreneurship.

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Income inequality is killing capitalism

23 November 2012 News Business Matters 94 Comments

Why did people want to borrow so much? Why did the ratio of household debt to income soar to unprecedented heights in the pre-recession days?

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Mystery whistleblower could reap big award in HP accounting case

22 November 2012 News Business Matters 2 Comments

While the Hewlett-Packard Co accounting scandal has produced several losers, it also produced one potentially very big winner: the whistleblower.

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UBS rogue trader Kweku Adoboli jailed for seven years

21 November 2012 News Business Matters 3 Comments

Former UBS banker Kweku Adoboli has been jailed for seven years and dubbed a trader who was “out of control”, having been found guilty of the biggest fraud in British history.

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UK businesses, charities and public sector organisations have drawn down £33.9 million in government grants for workplace electric vehicle charging since 2016, new analysis shows. But the scheme responsible for most of that funding closes for good in March 2027, and firms that have yet to apply are running out of time.

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