The easy sell: retail is the best industry for start-ups
RETAIL is — statistically — the best industry in which to start a business in the UK.
Analysis by cloud accounting company Ember shows that...
SME: Engineering Perfection
Perfection is often the outcome of fortuitous circumstance – not necessarily of a carefully traced design process. That’s how a West Sussex precision engineering...
UK car market stalled for fears of ‘emissions laws and Brexit’
NEW UK car registrations in 2019 fell to their lowest level in six years.
A total of 2.31m new cars were registered in 2019, down...
Gender pay-gap: women undervalue their own contributions, study finds
Expectations play a part in unequal rewards system – and women appear less pushy when it comes to negotiating a salary
WOMEN often find themselves...
An ill-wind for Visa quickly blows in Mastercard’s favour
AMAZON has told customers in the UK that it will stop accepting Visa credit cards early next year because of high transaction fees.
The retail...
Cathay Pacific losing altitude
Once held up as a benchmark of luxury long-haul air travel, the company’s determination not to jump on the low fair bandwagon looks like...
Troy Wiseman: Bamboo – A Sustainable Source of Fibre
Over the last ten years, REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) and REDD+ developments have proved that the price attributed to, and...
Active Capital Reinsurance — pioneer emerges from pandemic stronger, and set...
DESPITE the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, Active Capital Reinsurance (Active RE) has seen continued global expansion and diversification.
The company's team has been faced...
Ready, aim, hire! It’s a digital call-up
RETIRED Australian Army Captain Tom Larter is calling for UK businesses to literally join forces — and commit to filling a proportion of digital...
ICC Court to establish MENA Representative Office in UAE
The International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has announced it is to open a representative office for the Middle...
