Category: News

Tens of thousands of small businesses are only one step away from making more profit than their rivals, new research by Warwick Business School suggests.

Company insolvencies have decreased in the first quarter of 2010 by 8.4% bringing the 12-month figure to a total of 4,082, a decrease of 17.8% year-on-year. But the figures could be hiding a secret tsunami of corporate failures, with HMRC being treated as a lender of last resort rather than a tax collector, but now as HMRC increasingly flexes its muscles. We spoke to Steve Clancy, Partner at MCR Tax Arrears Solutions, a specialist in this area for his opinion.

What gets you going? What motivates entrepreneurs to start and build a business from scratch? It isn’t the money according to a new survey findings

VAT is set to rise under the new coalition government, according to a survey of influential economists.

We have spoken to leading entrepreneurs and commentators within the British Small & medium sized business community to get their thoughts and reaction to the new Conservative & Liberal coalition government.

David Cameron has become the youngest British Prime Minister after Gordon Brown resigned bringing to an end 13 years of Labour rule. But as the government is, it appears, to be a coalition with the Liberal Democrats where does this leave the manifesto plans related to business?

Workers are flocking to the internet to keep up-to-date with the activities surrounding the ongoing general election process, with one ISP claiming they are seeing a 400 per cent increase on normal online activity.

The Business Matters poll, run over the past four weeks with our partners Trends Research, has seen UK business owners give a huge backing to David Cameron with over half of those that took part voting for the Conservative party and resigning Gordon Brown’s Labour party to third place.

Lord Heseltine was the first to warn of the dangers of a hung parliament, but the former deputy prime minister is now “confident” David Cameron will succeed Gordon Brown as Prime Minister.

British public put economic recovery in the hands of new businesses and call for the next Government to make help for new entrepreneurs a priority

I was having a chat with someone recently about 4N, and explained to him that, unlike some business networking groups, we don’t restrict the number of people from each industry that can attend our events. They’re open to any number of businesses, a simple case of the more the merrier.

The recession has created a toxic environment for business, with most UK managers still feeling insecure about the future and businesses struggling to regain a competitive footing, according to a new report from Lord John Eatwell, published by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) today.

The UK’s small business owners overwhelmingly want to see David Cameron and George Osborne in Downing Street, sceptical of Labour’s pledge not to raise business or personal taxes in the next Parliament, according to a new survey carried out since Brown called the election.

Sellers on internet auction sites like eBay have been given a “wake-up call” after a man was prosecuted for bidding against himself to raise prices.

Flights from northern UK airports at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle were finally being given the green light to take off from 7am today, but passengers in the rest of the country faced confusion as airtraffic controllers backtracked on plans to reopen runways further south.