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Beer sales drop by 2 million pints a day
Small businesses in the pub sector will be feeling even more pressure today as figures released from the British Beer and Pub Association have shown that two million fewer pints of beer are being sold everyday in the pubs in the country, compared to figures recorded a year ago. The massive drop in sales, revealed in the most recent UK Quarterly Beer Barometer, is being blamed on the 18 per cent hike in the duty being [+]FSB help-line endures 214 per cent increase from small businesses
The Federation of Small Businesses has released figures showing how calls to their small business hotline have risen by a staggering 214 per cent a the country plunges further into a recession and more small businesses are being forced out of business. The FSB have claimed that the calls are relating to concerns and issues about employment and redundancies. The huge rise in calls was witnessed in the last quarter of 2008, and compared to the [+]Official recession for Britain - worst gross figures since 1980
It is now official, the country is in the worst recession it has seen in the last 29 years and to ass salt to the wound, Gordon Brown has announced that he didn’t expect the economic downturn to actually hit Britain and that Britain will not be seeing any relief from the recession in 2009 unless major action taken in America, Europe and the Far East. The Office for National Statistics has released figures that show [+]Pound sturggles around 15 year low as Government prepares to announce official recession
The declining strength of the pound has become even more apparent over the last few days as the country has watched it’s worth drop against the dollar. The pound has fallen to close to a 23 year low, standing at $1.3915 for every pound and 1.0688 Euros for every pound. Compared to last summer, the figures are appalling as the pound was worth over $2 just around 14 months ago. The pound was at a 15 [+]Unemployment fast approaching 2 million
Unemployment is spiralling out of control in Britain as the figures climb a little closer to the 2 million mark through the economic downturn. However, the government is maintaining the message that the drought will be over soon and that things would ease up on those that are currently unemployed. Between September and November of last year, a further 131,000 members of the public were added to the unemployment list which is now the highest it [+]YouGov small businesses survey - biscuits before advertising
A new survey taken by YouGov, commissioned by Opus Energy, has uncovered some interesting statistics about small businesses, such as how businesses in Britain are planning on tackling the current economic downturn. For example, the survey shows how many firms are planning on cutting budgets on advertising and company travel to bring around an economic balance through the recession. The YouGov survey uncovered how almost 40 per cent of small businesses around the country are planning [+]Brown announces a second bank bail-out scheme after only 3 months
The government has announced today that a second bail out for banks is in the works, only three months after the first massive bail out was brought to light that was intended to save the banks and ease the tightening felt by the recession. The new plan is being hailed as the country’s last option in terms of the banks, as if this fails, the backlash on the country will be staggering. The new bail out [+]More From Choose a category
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