The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
With his Premier League salary rumoured to be around £230,000 a week, Wayne Rooney is certainly a man with money to spare and now the Manchester United and England striker has teamed up with cricketer Kevin Pietersen and Dragons’ Den star Theo Paphitis to offer a service giving loans to small businesses that have been turned down by the banks.
Scottish small businesses have started the year in more confident mood, a survey has suggested, however, it still lagged behind the UK average.
Seventeen of the sharpest start ups from education kickstarters to cloud based ticketing platforms, and dating apps to restaurant delivery services have been selected to join Telefonica’s global tech start-up accelerator programme Wayra.
An extensive study published today by Experian, the global information services company, has revealed a significant improvement in the number of businesses reporting strong year-on-year growth
A national enterprise campaign will be celebrating the growing number of people starting businesses in Britain with a happy birthday message atop the iconic BT tower.
Peter Jones, the star of Dragons’ Den and one of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs is relaunching the collapsed camera chain Jessops he purchased out of administration at the end of January – However he admits he doesn’t know if the venture will succeed.
A pilot scheme to help small and sole trader construction businesses secure credit from B&Q and Screwfix stores via their TradeUK credit scheme has kicked off following government backing of £30 million.
New research released of UKs SMEs has revealed that only 13 per cent of these businesses believe Vince Cable’s proposed British Business Bank is a good idea for the UK’s small business sector.
Lord Younger has announced £150,000 of funding for new web site designed to make it easier for consumers to obtain information about copyright
DVD and games rental chain Blockbuster has been sold to restructuring specialists Gordon Brothers Europe, its administrators have said.
Furniture and fashion retailer Laura Ashley has been accused by support group the Forum of Private Business (FPB) of squeezing its suppliers.
Business groups and retailers will use an industry summit on Monday to tell the Government it must help the high street “turn the tide” in its losing battle with out of town developments.
Young student entrepreneurs from Slough win £3,000 business investment in The Prince of Wales’ charity’s Enterprise Competition
Vince Cable has set out plans for a state bank that will bring billions of pounds of aid together in a “one stop shop” to help credit starved SMEs secure finance and address an over-reliance on high street banks.
Finalists for the first Veuve Clicquot New Generation Award have been announced announced. The new category which runs alongside the established Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award, aims to celebrate up and coming female entrepreneurial talent in the UK.
