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 […]

The Federation of Small Businesses is urging the Government to include protection from credit card interest rates as part of their efforts to aid small businesses in 2009.

The Federation is lobbying to bring in a cap on interest rate charges as they reveal that around 25 per cent of small businesses claim that they use […]

The Federation of Small Businesses has highlighted their main concern for small businesses as they approach 2009 – the issue being between the small businesses and their banks.
The Federation, who represents almost a quarter of a million small businesses around the country, claims that if 2008 has taught small businesses anything it is that the […]

Small businesses are looking at the possibility of having to enforce a maximum 48 hour week on their employees if Britain votes on the controversial law, ending Britain’s working time directive opt out.
MEPs have voted this week to become a part of the Working Time Directive which will see employees only being allowed to work […]

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 […]

The majority of the main banks in the country have declared that they will be passing along the new interest cuts to their customers in the future.  The cut, a one per cent slash, perhaps is the fallout of the recent claims by the Royal Bank of Scotland, recently taken over by the Government, that […]