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Small business

March 2024

  • Jonathan and Laura Cobb, the owners of Miserden Stores in Gloucestershire.

    Tesco accused of using cash and carry to ‘squeeze’ village stores out of business

    Exclusive: Independent retailers, many running post offices, say wholesale arm Booker is restricting supplies and deliveries
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Want to get rich quick? Business influencers have some new advice – and it’s terrible

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Wannabe business moguls suggest we should all outsource our work to countries where cheap labour is easily available. Sound familiar, asks Arwa Mahdawi

    • Labour says it will use state bank to fund female-led businesses

    • ‘In construction, it stands out’: how ‘& Daughters’ became a firm favourite

    • VAT threshold for UK businesses limited by EU rules, Hunt admits privately

February 2024

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    The UK stock market isn’t working

    Nils Pratley
  • A colorful image of a rattan checkout table with two computers, hand sanitizer and a stack of books, decorated with gold tinsel, beyond which is a bookshelf with a Pride flag, letters spelling out Salt Eaters Bookshop, and images of Black people.

    Black-owned small businesses in LA are closing. That means fewer safe spaces for Black people

  • Lord Alan Sugar seen at the Royal Society of Chemistry in central London, 5 October 2017

    The hard truth is that Britain’s entrepreneurs simply don’t innovate

    Phillip Inman
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    School food fights
    Noodles of opportunity: how an Oregon law boosted a small food business and built community

January 2024

  • Multiple gas rings burning against a dark background

    Legal action launched against ‘rip-off’ secret commissions on UK firms’ energy bills

  • City of London skyline

    Labour vows to cut financial ‘red tape’ and ‘unashamedly champion’ UK sector

  • Five young female bakers gather in front of a work table with decorated cakes.

    New business school
    ‘Inspired and excited’: how can this Brooklyn baker stir success into her mix?

  • A woman sitting at a laptop in a library.

    New business school
    A software entrepreneur wants to empower players to develop their own games

  • ‘Everyone cites Covid and Brexit’: number of UK businesses going bust rises 52% in two years

  • Insurer forced to pay thousands of pounds to small firms hit by Covid payout delays

  • New business school
    Experts advise: how can this tiny – and funky - flower shop put down roots and grow?

December 2023

  • A young woman in a black T-shirt stands smiling among the barrels with vats in the background

    The West Bank brewmaster hoping to keep her business bubbling along

  • Tameeka Smith looks at the camera while sitting down

    ‘I conduct my own orchestra’: Why more women than ever are starting UK businesses

  • Boris Johnson signs the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) with the EU in December 2020, with former chief trade negotiator David Frost in attendance.

    British exporters call on government to ease post-Brexit trade frictions with EU

  • A young woman sitting at a table smiles into the camera as she holds a cup of tea in her hand.

    New business school
    How can this matcha tea trader keep nurturing her business now that she’s expecting?

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