Category: In Business

We spoke to four of the UKs leading entrepreneurs and business leaders to get their reaction from George Osborne’s first full budget. Do they feel it is budget for business and sustainable growth or did he not go far enough?

The brains behind business website smarta.com are inviting small businesses and entrepreneurs the chance to make a unique contribution to this year’s Red Nose Day… by auctioning themselves off to the highest bidder!

Rising coverage of entrepreneurs on television is helping to persuade more people to consider a career as their own boss, new research published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) shows.

Barclays has announced that it has launched its ‘Take One Small Step’ competition for 2011 which aims to find Britain’s best business ideas and reward them with a total £450,000 cash injection.

New online research from a monthly SME survey reveals that 98% of senior decision makers in small to medium business enterprises believe face to face to be one of the most acceptable ways to inform an employee that they are losing their job.

The annual Mumpreneur Idol competition, which awards the best of the UK’s female entrepreneurs who are juggling raising a family with starting and running their own business, has reduced it’s 200 entries down to a short list.

Employers should be allowed to ask potential women employees about their plans for children, Lord Sugar said today.

Dragons’ Den entrepreneur Peter Jones is heading up a new initiative to unleash the entrepreneurial spark in schoolchildren up and down the UK with a £400,000 investment pot

Collect+, the parcel delivery service, has announced the launch of its service that allows small businesses to send parcels through their local corner shop.

The hunt is on for the UK’s top small businesses with the launch of the Nectar Business Small Business Awards 2011. Now in its third year, the awards will again recognise the achievements of exceptional small and medium sized enterprises and be judged by a panel of respected industry figures, including one of Britain’s leading businesswomen, Karren Brady.

Research, just published, has found that one month on from the VAT rate increase, small businesses in the UK have been largely unaffected despite widespread media hype.

Less than a week after launch, the Business in Bloom campaign, which aims to help 500,000 people start and grow a business in 2011 is on target to reach this ambitious target, having attracted support from small businesses, large corporates and enterprise agencies across the UK.

Technology firms based in Cambridge are recruiting heavily in anticipation of a bounce in the global economy later in the year and with competition so fierce many are using gadgets to get people to interview for the roles.

Athletes are not the only ones training ahead of London 2012 as today saw the launch of the Technology Lab; a miniature version of the 36 Olympic competition venues, with the IT systems for every sports event and venue being put through a series of tests over 200,000 hours to ensure the Games run smoothly.

Over half of businesses across the UK are unsure of what to expect in 2011. Mid-sized companies are the most bullish. Half declared themselves to be positive about the future, with smaller companies being more confident than large enterprises, with nearly half of SMBs questioned are looking forward to a good year.