Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has announced that the capitol’s businesses must concentrate on their carbon footprints in a bid to improve the city’s ecological impact by going ‘green’.
The programme, labelled the Green 500 campaign, is said to have the aim of reducing the city’s carbon dioxide emissions by 60 per cent by 2025.  [...]

Small businesses around the country may be in for a little bit more luck as the Bank of England has announced that they are preparing to slash interest rates even further in an attempt to avoid having the country caught up too much in a recession.
The move would be a record breaking drop as the [...]

Businesses are being told that they should be conducting health checks on their business throughout the economic crisis in order to avoid any unforeseen issues that could punish them.  The warnings comes as economic analysts have claimed that thousands of small businesses across the country could meet their peril in 2009 due to the downturn.
Consultations [...]

Companies have been warned that the cost of redundancy is far more serious than firms would initially think, as the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s has discovered that the cost of letting an employee go and then hiring someone else averages at £16,375.
The Institute is aware that many firms fall back to redundancy as [...]

News has surfaced that most small businesses in the country do not offer pension schemes for their employees.  The information was published in a survey taken by the Association of Consulting Actuaries and shows that a staggering 80 per cent of small businesses in Britain failed to provide any sort of pension scheme to their [...]

Who wants to go back to work after a couple of weeks of relaxation, or not in some cases, with family and friends during Christmas and New Year?  Well apparently not many people do want to go back to work and the news is not good at all for small businesses according to the Federation [...]

Figures taken by a recent poll have showed that small business leaders are more than eager to join forces with the Euro and are prepared to ditch the pound.  However, the small business leaders are not amongst the majority of Britons as 71 per cent of British people would rather not walk around with a [...]