Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
Business Ideas & Planning
Can I work as sole trader and continue with my full-time job, while I'm setting up my new business, without informing my current employers?
Advice
I am interested in opening a bonded warehouse, could you point me in the right direction as to who I should contact to start the ball rolling?
Finding and selling to customers
Targeting the right person in a company is critical, but not always easy.
News
In a backlash against red tape and advice on trivial risks, the Health and Safety Executive has launched a campaign focusing on practical guidance on real dangers that face people in the workplace.
News
The Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) needs to improve the rapidity of its activities in order to better serve small firms, or so says The Federation of Small Business (FSB).
News
Suzie McCafferty, the energetic business development director for Edinburgh-based franchise Smart Cartridge, has been named as a finalist in the National Business Awards for Scotland 2006.
News
By law, small businesses have many environmental responsibilities but a great deal of them have little or no idea what they are. However, a free online assessment tool aims to help keep small firms on the right side of environmental legislation.
Business Ideas & Planning
Within just a couple of minutes of internet searching you can find a new apartment, on the south coast of Spain going for £61,000, two minutes from the beach in Cyprus for £60,000 and on the banks of the Black Sea for less than £40,000.
Business Ideas & Planning
Spain is one of the most popular destinations for Britons wanting to set up a business abroad. With 16 million British tourists visiting every year and over 650,000 having moved there permanently this is no surprise.
Business Ideas & Planning
When considering setting up a business abroad, it’s vital to take into account the commercial realities and cultural differences of the region to which you’re moving.
News
Small business have until 24 July to enter the National Business Awards, sponsored by Orange, to be in with a shout of winning nationwide fame and recognition to help grow their business.
News
A week before he steps down as director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, Sir Digby Jones has claimed Government complacency has made starting and running a business harder since he took up his post six years ago.