Aidan O’Boyle, chairman of the Small Firm’s Association, is claiming that the small business sector is the lifeblood for the future as the small businesses in the country will aid the economic development of the country as well as being able to supply more and more jobs.
O’Boyle stated in the Small Firm’s Association end of [...]

The Federation of Small Businesses is urging the Government to include protection from credit card interest rates as part of their efforts to aid small businesses in 2009.

The Federation is lobbying to bring in a cap on interest rate charges as they reveal that around 25 per cent of small businesses claim that they use [...]

The Federation of Small Businesses has highlighted their main concern for small businesses as they approach 2009 – the issue being between the small businesses and their banks.
The Federation, who represents almost a quarter of a million small businesses around the country, claims that if 2008 has taught small businesses anything it is that the [...]

Small businesses are looking at the possibility of having to enforce a maximum 48 hour week on their employees if Britain votes on the controversial law, ending Britain’s working time directive opt out.
MEPs have voted this week to become a part of the Working Time Directive which will see employees only being allowed to work [...]

A new crime is being felt by small businesses around the country, a new report has discovered.  However, the small businesses themselves are said to be to blame as they are apparently not taking enough action to protect their own intellectual property.
The IPOCG (Intellectual Property Office’s Crime Group) showed that most firms realise that there [...]

Unemployment rates are looking bleak this Christmas as Britain is expecting to have 2 million members of the public in the dole line over the festive season.
In the three month lead up to October the number of people unemployed in Britain took a sharp turn for the worse as the total figure jumped up 137,000 [...]

Sales are booming, but unfortunately for the small businesses on the high street the boom is being seen by online retailers.  A new report from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index indicate that online sales have shot up by 16 per cent when compared with online retail sales from 2007.
The chief executive of IMRG, James [...]

Barclays has got big plans for your small business in 2009 as they announce that they will be increasing their lending to SMEs by £1.5 billion.
This means that the pool available by Barclays for lending to small businesses will go from £15 billion to £16.5 billion.  The news follows weeks of pressure from the Government, [...]