ACCORDING to research from Nottingham-based accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young, the number of UK businesses has hit record highs with more young entrepreneurs starting up their own companies. Thanks to Britain’s booming start-up economy, an increasing number of companies are now being set up by directors in their twenties and thirties. Nottingham is just one
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Young entrepreneurs’ ambitious growth undeterred by Brexit
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Young entrepreneurs are more than twice as ambitious about their company’s growth prospects but far more negative towards Brexit than older generations of business owners, according to a new report launched by Albion Ventures. The fourth annual Albion Growth Report, designed to shed light on the factors that both create and impede growth among over
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UK’s biggest office bugbears revealed
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Contagious colleagues, corporate jargon and loud desk eaters all feature on a new list of the top 50 modern office bugbears. The research from Crunch Accounting finds these everyday frustrations are driving as many as 54 per cent of Brits to crave a new, alternative way of working. More than a quarter of people admit these pet
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Getting back to business: how to avoid poor commuter posture
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New research released today by Premier Inn reveals that nearly half (48 per cent) of British employees who undertake trips for business complain of tensions in their back and poor posture. Four in ten (39 per cent) of them believe that these journeys are having a knock-on effect on their work performance. The findings are
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Peer to peer strikes a chord with younger generation
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The millennial generation are four times more likely to have money invested in peer to peer than people aged 55 and over, according to research from ThinCats. Hamstrung by rock-bottom interest rates for most of their adult lives, 4 per cent of 18-34-year-olds currently have money in the emergent peer to peer sector, compared to 1 per
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SME planning focus now shifts to EU free trade agreement
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Four in ten SMEs in the UK are seeing their long-term planning stall following an ongoing lack of clarity about the Brexit free trade negotiations, according to the latest data from the Close Brothers Business Barometer. This ranges from stalled investment plans (8 per cent), hiring plans (7 per cent) and plans for growth (11 per cent), financing
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Are you clued up on the FTSE 100?
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Brits still struggle to identify homegrown brands and are overestimating the size of some of our biggest companies in the FTSE 100, new research reveals. The poll of 1,000 adults, conducted by Spread Co, revealed that 95 per cent of UK adults have heard of the five biggest companies in the FTSE 100, but thought high
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Workers accept a lower pay if it meant travelling more for work
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New research reveals that a staggering 30 per cent of business travellers would accept a lower paying job if it meant travelling more for work. Commissioned by Booking.com for Business, the global leader in connecting business travellers with the widest selection of places to stay, the research shows that company bosses are potentially under-valuing business travelling
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UK CEOs rate cyber risks as second most significant threat
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As world leaders gathered in Davos last week, cyber risks again featured high on the agenda. PwC’s CEO Survey reveals that three-quarters (76 per cent) of UK CEOs consider cyber risks to be a significant business threat. This is second only to the availability of key skills, and ahead of changing consumer behaviour, the speed of technological
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A quarter of SME owners admit to previously missing deadline
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Nearly one in four small business owners have admitted they have previously failed to submit their online tax returns to HMRC in time to meet the strict 31 January deadline, according to research compiled by Informi, the website offering free practical advice and support for small businesses. Ahead of this year’s deadline, Informi found that
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