The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Britain risks forfeiting £250bn over the next decade, 8% of GDP, unless it tackles the G7's highest electricity costs, PwC warns, urging a government-led national energy…
The founder of the world's largest serviced office provider is stepping back from the day-to-day running of the business he built from a single idea in…
President Trump has reopened his long-running feud with Paris, warning that he will slap a 100 per cent tariff on French wine and champagne unless President…
Downing Street is lobbying the White House for a UK carve-out after Donald Trump banned foreign access to Anthropic's most advanced Claude models, citing security risks.
A quarter of UK manufacturers have moved production overseas or are considering it, as Make UK warns that the highest energy costs in the world are…
Retailers warn that delaying abolition of the £135 de minimis customs threshold until 2029 will cost more high street shops and let unsafe imports flood Britain…
The NTIA has thrown its weight behind Andy Burnham's call to cut VAT on hospitality and the night-time economy, warning the sector cannot survive three more…
More than 90 business leaders and 19 MPs have written to Rachel Reeves warning that a "death by a thousand cuts" on tax is driving Britain's…
From Bank of Dave founder David Fishwick to Citigroup chief Jane Fraser, we round up the entrepreneurs and business leaders recognised in the King's Birthday Honours…
HMRC will make more than 30,000 high street interventions in 2026/27, targeting vape shops, barbers and souvenir stores used as fronts for tax fraud and money…
Great British Pitch India launches on 16 June, giving 40+ UK small businesses the chance to pitch live to Indian buyers, backed by the Chancellor and…
SpaceX shares surged past their $135 IPO price to hit $150 on debut, as investors piled into Elon Musk's $1.75tn space and satellite empire. But can…
Mike Ashley's Frasers Group has tabled a £1.7bn cash offer of €38 a share for the 74% of German fashion house Hugo Boss it does not…
Rachel Reeves has hinted taxes may rise again to fund a £15bn defence uplift, as Keir Starmer delays the Defence Investment Plan until just before the…
Working days lost to strikes fell from 1.4 million to 559,000 in Labour's first year in power, GMB analysis of ONS data shows, a drop of…