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Selling your business

Selling your business: Are you thinking ahead?

By JOHN FOUNDLING CHOOSING the right time to sell a business can be a challenge. There's often a temptation to wait and see whether organic...
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£9tn Indo-Pacific partnership ‘boost to UK tech’

ASIA Pacific investors are said to be set to inject millions of pounds into the UK tech industry. Investment opportunities worth £100bn are being presented...
High Speed Training

When a B really means an A+

YORKSHIRE-based education firm High Speed Training is celebrating B Corp certification. The scheme, run by global non-profit B Lab, verifies that a business meets high...
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SMEs stymied by customs paperwork, says FSB

SMALL UK firms are being held back from international trade by excessive customs paperwork, soaring costs and supply chain issues, says the Federation of...
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Prioritise value realisation, says final report from Tech Nation

TECH Nation, the growth platform for tech scaleups, has published its final report. How to Build a Scale-up shines a light on the state of...
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Light-fingered employees’ cost-of-living hack

More workers are committing fraud and just plain stealing from their employers to make ends meet EMPLOYEE theft has jumped by 19 percent as the...
Tech Nation 2022 events

Tech Nation winds-down after grant funding is cut

AFTER a decade as a government-backed organisation in the UK scale-up ecosystem, Tech Nation will cease operations and seeks to transfer its assets. The decision...
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Lengthy bans for directors who fiddled Covid scheme

AN AVERAGE of 35 directors are being banned by the UK Insolvency Service each month for abusing the Covid Support Scheme. That’s almost treble the...
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Quirky TikTok trends ‘can help to drive business’

WHAT happens when TikTok trends and British small businesses collide? That’s what Funding Circle, the UK’s largest small-business platform, wanted to know. The firm paired...
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Zoom meeting from a bomb shelter in Ukraine…

‘Yesterday afternoon,’ writes ANNABEL CLEMENTSON, who submitted the following media release to BV, ‘I joined a call with team members from Ukraine’s Diia.City programme...