Monthly Archives: April 2017

UK retail sales post biggest quarterly fall since 2010

British retail sales posted the biggest quarterly fall in seven years during the first three months of 2017, as rising prices since last year’s Brexit vote started to pressure consumers. Retail sales volumes contracted 1.4 per cent in the first quarter following a 0.8 per cent rise in the last three months of 2016 according
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Two years and counting: How small businesses can profit from PPI claims

The personal insurance protection (PPI) sector is gearing up for another bonanza in payouts by the banks involved in the enormous mis-selling scandal. In the last six years, some £26.5 billion has been paid out to customers — and claims firms reaped £5 billion of that in fees. Now, small businesses looking to handle another
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Unsafe data security practices still common in the workplace

Dell is releasing the results of its Dell End-User Security Survey, which finds that not only are many employees likely to share confidential information, but that they are doing so without proper data security protocols in place or in mind. Results show that today’s workforce is caught between two imperatives: be productive and efficient on
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British SMEs enter the election season on a wave of optimism

While Theresa May can’t guarantee the support of the small business community before the election season, she can be reassured that its confidence in its own growth is the highest in four years, according to the latest Enterprise Index results from Smith & Williamson, the accountancy, tax and investment management group. The Enterprise Index, a
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