The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is now taking the next step towards setting up the UK Innovation Investment Fund (UK IIF) – a venture capital fund of funds to support the UK’s technology companies – just a month after securing cornerstone investment for the Fund.
The Capital for Enterprise Ltd will release a Request [...]

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Advertising agencies are there to plan, design and produce campaigns for client companies and can provide your company with an in-depth knowledge of how the advertising industry works as well as creating flair to produce innovative ideas.
The cost of hiring an advertising agency varies depending on how much experience that company has, and their over-all [...]

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Hiring senior staff can be an expensive, not to mention, disruptive process that can leave you questioning your own skills and assessing your own strengths and weaknesses. You need to hire someone who can complement the rest of your team, not duplicate them. Your senior staff needs to have management skills and an understanding of [...]

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IR35 came into effect in April 2000 as a preventative measure against people the government felt were avoiding paying sufficient tax by declaring themselves self-employed while only working for one company. Those that fall into this category now have to pay Schedule E and National Insurance after the deduction of expenses.
Self Employed? Or Just Employed?
IR35 [...]

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The most obvious way to retain staff is to keep them happy. This can also keep up high performance and attract new, varied employees into your business. In terms of saving money, retaining staff means saving on advertisement, interviewing costs and extra training costs.
Two of the most common motivators of choosing a job are location [...]

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Business ministers have welcomed the Business and Enterprise Select Committee report that the Enterprise Financial Guarantee (EFG) has seen thousands of businesses benefit from the government guaranteed loan.
The loan was introduced six months ago, and over half a billion pounds worth of applications have been granted or are in the process of being assessed by [...]

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Why Co-Brand?
There are many reasons companies choose to co-brand. It could be seen as a powerful way of introducing one company’s products/services to another. Or, it could enable one brand to benefit from the ‘halo of affection’ of their partner company.
Co-branding also saves your company money, which is something that cannot be taken lightly in [...]

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New Government Rules Could Cost Your Business
Swine flu is rapidly becoming a pandemic across the world, and the UK seems particularly hit. Just last week a think tank – Oxford Economics warned that a six-month Swine Flu pandemic in the UK could cost our already struggling economy £60 billion, thereby extending the recession by two [...]

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