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Bridgewater: a small pottery firm with a design for British business

03.11.10
Business interview: Few company bosses can boast a 40% profit rise last year. Emma Bridgewater is one who can… ... more

The Business Advisory Group makes a lovely photocall, but just what will it achieve?

04.10.10
Downing Street is extremely proud of its new Business Advisory Group. I don’t want to be a dreadful sceptic but I can’t help it: I feel the need to emit a large yawn... more

Lord Sugar to head new business task force

01.04.10
Enterprise Champion Lord Sugar will head up a new task force to advise the Government on how to ensure small businesses are treated fairly, Gordon Brown announced... more

Flooding expected as snows melt across Britain

14.01.10
Flash floods could hit Britain as the big freeze turns into the big thaw. But despite rain and warmer weather, temperatures are set to plunge again... more

Employers' anger at rise in national insurance

09.12.09
Business leaders reacted with fury to plans to increase national insurance by even more than first planned... more

SMEs give Darling's Time To Pay scheme the thumbs up

09.12.09
Small businesses welcomed the Chancellor's decision to defer an increase in corporation tax but gave a lukewarm response to other measures... more

'Tentative recovery' by small firms hit by credit crunch

30.06.09
Small firms hardest hit by the credit crunch a year ago are starting to report a "tentative recovery", new research showed... more

Stop our unique street becoming a chapter in history, say booksellers

19.05.09
Since the 17th century it has been the street to visit for the connoisseur seeking rare and antique books and maps... more

Tories and firms attack Brown's £500m jobless aid

12.01.09
Gordon Brown's plans to counter the recession came under fire from business and the Tories today as thousands of redundancies coincided with Labour's "jobs summit"... more

Firms could be outed over low pay for women

06.01.09
Companies face being shamed into closing the pay gap between men and women... more

Ministers are urged to shame employers into closing gender pay gap

06.01.09
Companies face being shamed into closing the pay gap between men and women... more

Small firms ‘need £1bn lifeline’

19.11.08
Business chiefs have begged Chancellor Alistair Darling for a £1billion lifeline to stop hundreds of thousands of small firms going bust... more

Brown: I'll get banks lending

19.11.08
New action to make it easier for small firms and homeowners to borrow from banks will be in the mini-budget next week, Gordon Brown indicated... more

Hard times on the high street

10.10.08
The Government has begun a massive rescue operation to prop up the crumbling pillars of the City but big institutions are not the only victims of the credit crunch. Ellen Widdup heads to Islington to see how ordinary businesses are coping... more


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