Advice on growing your small and medium sized business, SME, in the UK. Hiring and managing staff and finance plus marketing all on one website
Business Matters is a proud business media partner of the National Business Awards, dubbed the business Oscars by ex-chancellor Alistair Darling, and over the next few weeks we are going to be highlighting some of the businesses who have made it to the prestigious shortlist ahead of the judging process in September and the glittering ceremony in November. Today we focus our attention on the SME category and Easi-drive.
Young entrepreneurs from across the UK have less than a month left to put themselves forward for a chance to win the coveted Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, which highlights the achievements of the UK’s most talented young entrepreneurs.
Half of over the 1,000 recent university leavers, that mobile giant, Orange spoke with, expected flexible working, either from a location of their choosing or outside of ‘traditional’ office hours, as standard when they begin their jobs, with 69% stressing that the option to work flexibly was important to them.
A business owner who turns unwanted old garments into funky children’s clothes has won the Birmingham heat of the nationwide search for Britain’s best new company.
Business owners risk a summer burnout by not taking a proper break, claims research released today.
It is being reported that the entrepreneur, and owner of the Daily Express & Daily Star newspapers as well as OK magazine, Richard Desmond has ‘shaken hands’ on a £100M deal to buy television channel Channel 5 from German owners RTL.
Small businesses in the South-East are still facing a struggle towards recovery with business confidence worsening, a survey has discovered.
A young entrepreneur who was inspired by his ill grandfather to create something that would help keep dementia patients mentally active has won the South East heat of the search for the UK’s best new business.
Two entrepreneurs who appeared on Channel 4’s The Secret millionaire have selected online mapping service Gaist as the winner of Northern England heat of the nationwide small business competition The Pitch.
Sellafield Ltd received a top accolade for its Apprenticeship scheme at the Apprenticeship Awards, organised by the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS). The award recognises the firm’s success in using apprentices to meet the needs of its business and the community it operates in.
The founder of a social enterprise who was once given a month to live has won the Scottish heat of 2010’s biggest search for Britain’s best new business.
The average annual salary has dropped by more than £2,600 in the last six months, it has emerged today.
Divorce papers, an Ann Summers bondage bear, an antique bugle and toilet rolls were among the odds and ends reported to be cluttering British officeworkers’ desks, according to a recently published survey.
Advice from customers has the biggest positive impact on business growth yet almost half are missing out on this valuable insight, a new study has revealed.
The Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, has today pledged to scrap hundreds of unnecessary and expensive government websites and slash the cost of the remaining sites to save millions of pounds.
