The chancellor Rishi Sunak has called on businesses to ramp up investment in training and innovation to help alleviate a cost of living squeeze, in a speech to the country’s top business chiefs last night. Speaking to the Confederation of British Industry, Sunak said that while government investment had risen to its highest level since […]Read More

Edinburgh, Leeds, and Glasgow have been named as the best cities in Great Britain outside of London to start a business. New analysis which looked at government and business data found that in the first quarter of 2022 saw a growth of incorporations, with 56,448 companies on the total register, showing entrepreneurs’ determination to start businesses […]Read More

The maker of Mr Kipling cakes and Bisto gravy has said it will have to raise its prices as the costs of wheat, dairy and energy soar. Alex Whitehouse, Premier Foods’ chief executive, said the company was facing inflationary pressures of more than 10 per cent within its business and that while it would try […]Read More

The government is working to decarbonise the entire UK economy to meet its net-zero 2050 target.  An increasing number of companies seek to get ahead of the game and achieve carbon neutrality today. Some household names are already certified carbon neutral, including Sky, Google, M&S and Quorn. Assessing business carbon emissions The first step […]Read More

Royal Mail has said it will need to rise prices and cut costs in the face of soaring inflation. The company warned that it sees “significant headwinds” from rising costs including wages, energy and fuel. Royal Mail revealed that it aimed to make cost savings of £350m over the course of its current financial […]Read More

Fintech platform MarketFinance announced a debt raise from Deutsche Bank which the company will use to part fund up to £100m of lending to support strong, well-managed SME businesses with their investment and working capital needs. The announcement comes at a time when results from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB)’s quarterly Small Business Index […]Read More

Unions have called on the government to take urgent action to fix a “whopping pensions gap”, as research showed women working in many industries have half the retirement savings of men. The TUC said Thursday was “gender pensions gap day”, when female pensioners in Great Britain start getting paid after effectively going four and a […]Read More

Two of Britain’s largest pub groups have warned that customers may have to pay more for a meal and see fewer discounts on the menu as they struggle to absorb rising energy and food costs. The pub and restaurant group Mitchells & Butlers, which runs pub chains including O’Neill’s and restaurant brands such as Harvester, […]Read More

Dougie Belmore is the Chief Payments Officer of Pay.UK, the company which was created to bring together the UK’s foremost payment schemes, including Bacs, in 2018; Dougie is responsible for the operation of Direct Debit and Bacs Direct Credit as well as Faster Payments and cheques. Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) is the last man standing […]Read More

Among the various responsibilities of an entrepreneur is to ensure safety in the workplace, but this is often easier said than done. Accidents in the workplace have become more and more common, the numbers associated with the employees’ injuries being suggestive of it. According to Statista, there were 142 fatal injuries to employees in the […]Read More