SME retailers are struggling to keep up with consumer payment demands online and in-store, which is impacting both revenue and customer loyalty, new research from Barclaycard shows. The findings show that SMEs who don’t keep pace with consumer appetite for a range of fast and frictionless ways to pay including contactless, mobile payments and ‘one-click’
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Meet the British Small Business Awards judges: Sir Rod Aldridge, Capita
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We are pleased to announce that Sir Rod Aldridge OBE, founder of Capita and his charity The Rod Aldridge Foundation, will be a judge for the British Small Business Awards, the leading UK SME awards ceremony. The event, organised by SmallBusiness.co.uk and sponsored by Travelers, will be taking place on November 1 at the Grand Connaught Rooms, London. Sir Rod Aldridge is a
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UK investors rally behind post-Brexit business
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New research from peer-to-peer share trading platform Asset Match reveals UK investors are backing the nation’s thriving community of SMEs, confident in their ability to benefit from the opportunities arising from Brexit. However, despite the positive long-term outlook for the private sector, investors have demonstrated dwindling levels of confidence and faith in Theresa May’s minority
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The top industries to find a job in right now
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Despite growing uncertainty in the run up to the general election last month, data published today from the UK’s leading independent job board, CV-Library, suggests that businesses remained confident in Q2 2017, with job vacancies and advertised salaries increasing across the nation. The Q2 job market report from CV-Library, compared data from April, May and
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All that British workers really want is to work outdoors
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Financial services workers spend the least amount of time outside than any other industry and are potentially at risk of vitamin D deficiency, spending just 34 minutes outdoors during a day, according to new research. Bankers, accountants and bookkeepers are amongst the UK’s most outdoor-starved job roles, according to a survey of 2,000 UK workers
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Boom in British eBay millionaires, with focus on fashion and furniture
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More than two hundred new eBay millionaires have been made since 2013 in Britain – and some of them are as young as 19. Despite the economic turbulence of the early 2010s, the UK’s online economy has proven increasingly robust, with the number of eBay millionaires rising by 50 per cent since 2013 – from 443
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SMEs failing to tap the potential of 4.7 million employees
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A third of the UK’s small business workforce aren’t getting the input they need to further their career, according to research by SME HR software provider, breatheHR. Almost a third (30 per cent) of respondents never have meetings about their personal development outside of their annual appraisals – this is a potential 4.7 million of the
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Small businesses driving record UK employment levels
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Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have driven more than 70 per cent of private sector employment growth in the UK since 2011, new research out today by npower Business and Capital Economics reveals, and now employ a stunning 15.7 million people nationally. This represents almost 50 per cent of the entire working population in the UK.
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It’s not all about the money in energy buying/procurement
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Competitiveness and price transparency are vitally important when choosing an energy contract, however according to research conducted by Gazprom Energy, businesses are increasingly starting to look beyond the price tag. Surveying 200 UK businesses Gazprom Energy finds that they are becoming more concerned about the whole package their provider is offering. Without doubt 95 per cent
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Meet the British Small Business Awards judges: Charlie Mullins, Pimlico Plumbers
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We are pleased to announce that Charlie Mullins OBE, founder and CEO of Pimlico Plumbers, will be a judge for the British Small Business Awards, the leading UK SME awards ceremony. The event, organised by SmallBusiness.co.uk and sponsored by Travelers, will be taking place on November 1 at the Grand Connaught Rooms, London. Charlie Mullins decided at the age of nine
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