Hope springs eternal — and seasonal — for UK retailers
SMALL and independent retailers in the UK have high hopes for the coming year.
Confidence in business growth came from 89 percent of those canvassed...
Life after death: Tech Nation rises once more
TECH Nation is officially relaunching to work with the UK government as “an independent voice” for founders, and to help tech entrepreneurs to thrive...
Converting page visitors into paying customers
By GRANT FARHALL
ON AVERAGE, people spend 53 seconds on a product page — and Britain’s SMEs are grasping for ways to hold their attention.
Research...
Is the office now officially a financial millstone?
INDUSTRY analysis by debt advisory firm Sirius Property Finance predicts that the UK’s serviced offices market will grow by 17 percent this year.
But the...
UK MPs look into SME funding challenges
A CROSS-PARTY committee of UK MPs is to examine the key challenges SMEs face when seeking finance.
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SMEs find banks ‘biased against them’
NEARLY three quarters of UK SMEs say their banks discriminate against them in favour of larger companies.
Fintech platform HedgeFlows canvassed the leaders of 500...
UK’s fastest-growing firms in the spotlight
WHAT do morph suits*, digital marketing, premium vodka and garden sheds all have in common? They’re just four of the things sold by Britain’s...
UK SMEs say costs stymie sustainability ambitions
BRITAIN’S five million SMEs claim the increased cost of doing business is making it harder to go green.
Research carried out by Oxford Economics found...
Cybersecurity fears? Put your head in the Cloud
By MATTHEW SMITH
A RECENT government survey found that 39 percent of UK businesses had identified a cyberattack on their business in the previous 12...
‘Netwalking’ scheme to support small UK firms
SMALL Business Britain and British Telecom are launching a series of small business networking walks to boost local connections, opportunities, resilience, and mental health.
The...
