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 [...]

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 [...]

News has surfaced that most small businesses in the country do not offer pension schemes for their employees.  The information was published in a survey taken by the Association of Consulting Actuaries and shows that a staggering 80 per cent of small businesses in Britain failed to provide any sort of pension scheme to their [...]

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 [...]

Women’s rights group, the Fawcett Society, say that more should be done to help bridge the gender gap when it comes to wages

According to a gloomy report from the Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC), a recession is “looming” in Scotland, with business confidence hitting rock bottom.

A recent survey by the Forum of Private Business has found that small businesses value school and college leavers above university graduates. The figures revealed that 77.4 percent of small business owners do not require university level employee’s, while 35.5 percent of the 1,500 surveyed said they’d rather employ someone with technical and craft skills [...]