Only 33% of small business owners say they feel confident about hiring new employees, research has revealed. Data from ...

Fixing sudden jumps in business rates when a business opens a second property are among the business rates reforms being ...

Prime minister Keir Starmer has carried out a reshuffle of his Cabinet and junior ministers. It follows Angela Rayner's ...

Responding to the publication of the Government’s new Industrial Strategy, Tina McKenzie, Policy Chair at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), said: “Through opening up procurement, helping to ...

Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace Report 2025, released earlier this year, made for concerning reading. Amongst other findings, the research revealed that employee engagement globally has fallen ...

As the Chancellor prepares her Spring Statement amid ongoing concerns over the rate of inflation, there are suggestions that a third of businesses are planning to implement price increases to help ...

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President Trump’s decision to pull out of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives threatens to have a dramatic knock-on effect with major global corporations announcing plans to scale back or ...

How a promising start-up was transformed into a billion-pound business by focusing on its most important asset: its people When Steve Hewitt, pictured above, took the helm at Gymshark, the brand was ...

The Bank of England’s decision to cut interest rates has been widely welcomed by business, but it comes with caveats. The 4.5% comes as it halved its UK growth forecasts for this year and warned ...

Optimism has been gradually returning to the UK mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market in recent months. The last year has seen a significant uptick in SMEs considering the sale of their business, and ...

As the Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) space continues to evolve, start-ups and SMEs are uniquely positioned to capitalise on emerging trends. From hyper-personalisation to the rise of socially conscious ...