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Small business

December 2023

  • Lucy Yu, owner of the bookstore Yu & Me Books, carrying books in busy Chinatown, New York.

    New business school
    Lucy Yu’s thriving New York bookstore burned down. How can she rebuild without burning out?

    Lucy Yu’s bookstore features works by immigrants and people of color, but a fire earlier this year decimated her business

November 2023

  • island residents celebrate outside the community store – eight people, all dressed in warm winter clothing, smile after cutting a ribbon; one man holds a wine glass

    Scottish islanders save their only shop thanks to ‘community spirit’

  • two people walk along promenade by Southport pier, Merseyside, at low tide on a grey, wintry day

    ‘Doesn’t go to fundamentals’: autumn statement misses mark in Southport

  • A middle-age woman displays bags of snacks with a smile.

    New business school
    A woman without a stomach founded a snack brand. How can she create an appetite in the market?

  • Fallou Wadje, the 36-year-old designer and founder of the Baayfall clothing line.

    New business school
    Experts advise: does a growing New York City clothing brand need a storefront in the digital age?

October 2023

  • People walk past an M&S store in Oxford Street, London

    Business rates could rise by £1.95bn in ‘bleak picture’ for UK retail and hospitality

  • Filmmaker Luke FrSh (left) and Tristan Plummer at the Cube, Bristol

    Welcome to the microplex! The hidden world of Britain’s 1,500 tiny cinemas

  • Tillie Peel, founder of the Pop-up Club

    How the UK’s dying high streets are being given new life by pop-up shops and galleries

  • Martha Lane Fox

    Observer business profile
    ‘Our CEO has chancellors on speed-dial’: Martha Lane Fox, British Chambers of Commerce president

September 2023

  • ‘We wanted to create an eye-catching beacon’ … Workstack, made of innovative cross-laminated timber. ( Photography by Graeme Robertson / The Guardian )

    ‘We’re here to stay’: the stack-em-high wooden workspace fighting the luxury flats plague

  • Louis Taylor, CEO of British Business Bank. London. Photograph by David Levene 4/9/23

    Observer business profile
    ‘We’ve learned lessons’: the banker clearing up the £1.1bn fallout from the UK’s Covid loan scheme

August 2023

  • Amazon order on screen

    Amazon delays rule change for some UK sellers who warned they could go bust

  • A phone screen displaying the Amazon seller homepage.

    Small firms fear going bust as Amazon extends wait time for sale proceeds

  • Simon Squibb, smiling and standing in front of the disused staircase, holds up an auction paddle and makes a thumbs-up gesture

    ‘One step at a time’: entrepreneur buys stairwell in London to help startups

  • Andrew Crook, president of the National Federation of Fish Fryers and owner of Skippers of Euxton in Lancashire

    ‘We’re just treading water’: UK small business owners on the latest rate rise

July 2023

  • view of the town

    ‘It’s bleak’: string of family firms shut in Rishi Sunak’s Yorkshire seat

    Four businesses in market town of Richmond announce closure in past week as cost of living crisis bites
  • SAG-AFTRA actors and Writers Guild of America (WGA) writers walk the picket line during their ongoing strike, in Los Angeles<br>SAG-AFTRA actors and Writers Guild of America (WGA) writers walk the picket line during their ongoing strike outside Netflix in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 26, 2023.

    Dry cleaners, restaurants, hotels: the ripple effects of Hollywood’s strike

    As the actors’ and writers’ strikes settle in, restaurants, cleaners and other businesses prepare for a financial downturn

    • Energy suppliers may be made to run evening helplines in Ofgem shake-up

    • Share of EU trade for English and Welsh factories falls despite global trade boom

    • Rent-free revival: ‘dead’ Poole shopping street brought back to life

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