Online retail doesn’t have to be a catastrophe!
Online retail has gone from strength to strength over the past couple of years and with the doom and gloom of the recession online sales have actually been enjoying a large amount of success – after all what better way to search for a bargain than online?
But are [...]

Bold words…
“Despite having to make the cut in VAT, our members are telling us that it is simply not worthwhile passing on the reduction to consumers once they have taken into account the cost and hassle of having to make the administrative changes.”
Those were the words of Phil McCabe of the Forum of Private Businesses [...]

Locations – Do you care enough?
There is finally some good news for retail businesses – some of the country’s largest and most influential landlords have decided to cut costs for retailers according to the British Property Federation.

The members of the British Property Federation created a ten-point-plan which they hope will bring down costs for retailers [...]

BRC survey gives a glimmer of hope.
It would seem as though a little light is being seen at the end of the economical tunnel as the  British Retail Consortium has found that sales of retail goods saw a much needed rise through January.
Compared to the same time a year before, retail sales saw the slight [...]

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 [...]

UK inflation rose to 5.2 percent in September, with energy bills taking the blame, official figures have shown. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure was up from 4.7 percent in August.

New research reveals that small businesses are suffering at the hands of larger companies.  Late payments are said to be affecting 88% of SMEs, with 72% of those surveyed reporting delayed settlements as posing a serious threat to the sustainable life of their business.
Finance director of the Forum of Private Business (FPB), Nick Palin, [...]