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Small business

July 2023

  • One in four firms are locked into poor value energy deals, trade groups claim.

    Trade groups demand Ofgem tackle energy brokers ‘ripping off’ small firms

  • Woman working on laptop

    Labour should woo self-employed to win next election, says report

  • An advert for the government's bounce back loan scheme

    Half of UK company directors struck off linked to alleged Covid loan fraud

  • Jackets of: Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead; Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida; Annie Ernaux’s Simple Passion; Jess Arndt’s Large Animals; Percival Everett’s The Trees; Svetlana Alexievich’s Second-Hand Time; Isabel Waidner’s Sterling Karat Gold; Shola von Reinhold’s Lote; Olga Ravn’s The Employees; Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand.

    The indie publishing mavericks shaking up the UK books world

  • The New Face of Small Business
    This gear company hopes to bridge the ‘nature gap’ for Bipoc, female adventurers

  • The New Face of Small Business
    This duo is finding new uses – and extra income – for houses of worship

  • MPs launch inquiry into challenges small firms face when seeking finance

June 2023

  • Vontelle Frames in Brooklyn, NY<br>Nancey Harris (R) and Tracy Vontelle Green (L), Cofounders of Vontelle Eyewear stand for a portrait in Prestige Eye Care in New York, NY on May 24, 2023. Ramin Talaie for The Guardian

    The New Face of Small Business
    A new vision for an age-old sector: this duo serves a segment that the big brands ignore

  • Snigdha Sur, founder of the Juggernaut, at the Chai Spot in New York City.

    The New Face of Small Business
    ‘We’re 1.8 billion people in the world’: the website that found a refreshing way to tell a community’s story

  • Ice-cream cone held aloft

    The 12 best places to buy ice cream in the UK

  • CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA - May 18, 2023: (L) Faith Blakeney, designer and stylist, and her sister (R) Justina Blakeney, designer, founder and creative director of home décor brand, Jungalow, poses for a portrait at Faith’s home studio in Los Angeles. Philip Cheung for The Guardian

    The New Face of Small Business
    ‘A thoroughly family affair’: the Blakeney sisters take the design world by storm

  • Germans best tippers in Europe, finds poll. Italians? Not so much

  • Pressure grows on UK energy suppliers to cut market-peak tariffs for small firms

  • The New Face of Small Business
    A crypto obsession and early Crocs investment lie behind an outsider’s ‘hustle mentality’

  • Rise in UK breweries going bust amid thirst for cheaper craft beers

May 2023

  • Tony Tulathimutte, author and writing tutor from Brooklyn, New York

    The New Face of Small Business
    The side hustle that keeps a literary author’s career afloat

    Tony Tulathimutte’s writing workshop, Crit, reels in eminent guest speakers and helps launch the careers of new authors
  • Korina Emmerich and Liana Shewey of Relative Arts, the community space, open atelier and shop displaying contemporary Indigenous fashion and design.

    The New Face of Small Business
    New York’s latest one-of-a-kind store is ‘like an Indigenous-futurist version of Warhol’s Factory’

    Indigenous boutique owners Liana Shewey and Korina Emmerich want to acknowledge traditions but also push the design narrative

    • The rural network
      Sorting out the succession can turn ordinary farming families into the Roy children

      Gabrielle Chan

    • ‘Shops will close’: soaring cost of potatoes batters British chippies

    • Cost of living squeeze ‘is holding back’ UK small businesses

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