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Unemployment will reach 2 million over Christmas - worst rates since 1997

Written by Alex in Wednesday, December 17th 2008   Tags: , , , ,    
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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 [...]

Online retail enjoys a HUGE sales boom

Written by Alex in Tuesday, December 16th 2008   Tags: , , , , , , , , ,    
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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 [...]

1/3 small businesses enduring the worst Christmas trading - ever

Written by Alex in Thursday, December 11th 2008   Tags: , , , , , ,    
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A new poll taken by the smallbusiness.co.uk website has shown that concerns are growing throughout small businesses in Britain that the Christmas period will be a very dreary one indeed.
The poll revealed that over a third of small businesses claimed that they had seen the worst Christmas trading ever, while a further 28 per cent [...]

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