Category: In Business

The entrepreneur behind a premium liqueur infused with wild berries has won the Northern Irish heat of The Pitch 2011, as the search for Britain’s best new small companies continues.

O2 have announced the opening of a new O2 Workshop at the O2 Shop in London’s Tottenham Court Road. The workshop is a revolutionary drop-in workspace targeted at flexible workers, entrepreneurs and local small businesses, offering one-stop-shop support.

Five entrepreneurs from Northern Ireland will pitch for the chance to win business support worth £50,000 at the last regional heat of Britain’s biggest small business pitching contest.

Fresh from winning Cornwall Entrepreneur of the Year, egg farmer Julie Hewitt from St Wenn, near Bodmin has set her sights even higher with plans to expand her family run business.

everywoman, the UK’s largest female business community, is inviting entries for the second year of its everywoman in Technology Awards, supported by Women in Technology

In an attempt to help tackle youth unemployment, address the complaints of business leaders and deal with management skills gaps, the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) has redoubled its efforts to ensure young people graduating from UK schools have basic management and leadership skills.

Schools should teach honesty, reliability, teamwork and punctuality to boost young people’s job prospects, said 65 per cent of adults who took part in a Young Enterprise poll.

The small business support company, Enterprise Nation, along with PayPal and Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, is launching Fund101 to offer amounts of up to £500 to start ups and young businesses.

Smarta.com and O2 have unveiled the winners of the 2011 Smarta 100 awards: its collection of the UK’s savviest, enterprising, most disruptive small businesses.

Having an affair with a colleague tops the list of seven deadly business sins newly appointed bosses should avoid at all costs.

The creator of an ingenious device which provides a temporary fix to burst water pipes has won the Scottish heat of The Pitch 2011, BusinessZone.co.uk’s search for Britain’s best new companies.

Cheques – until recently facing the threat of abolition – should be improved, with the “delays and uncertainty” that affect cheque payments should be reduced, said a Treasury Committee report.

A new survey of employees carried out by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) has found that almost half of those questioned feel they are further behind in their careers than they would like to be at this stage of their lives.

Small business owners who go away on holiday are unable to leave work behind when taking time off, an online survey published today has found.

Over 150 of Britain’s most innovative and sustainable public and private sector businesses have been announced today as finalists of the National Business Awards in partnership with Orange.