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Small business

June 2023

  • Couple at restaurant taking bill from server.

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

  • Church Street, Twickenham,

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

  • Maya Bakhai of Spice Capital.

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

  • Bottles and cans of real ale and craft beer for sale at a food and drink market

    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

April 2023

  • Local corner shop in London

    More than 1m UK small businesses ‘trapped in high-cost energy tariffs’

  • Rishi Sunak over a background of £50 notes

    ‘A naive and stupid idea’: how Rishi Sunak’s Future Fund spent millions on failed firms

  • Alejandra, 28-years old, from Colombia, and Valentina, 21-years-old from Venezuela, wait for customers at the entrance of the Café con Piernas "Kako's Express" in downtown Santiago. Santiago, Chile, on Tuesday, January 24, 2023. Tamara Merino / The Guardian.

    ‘Coffee with legs’: inside Chile’s risque and antiquated cafe culture

  • A shop closing down in Slough, England.

    ‘We won’t be here for long’: UK firms fear the worst as energy bill support ends

March 2023

  • Raashed Hall appears on a WJLA-TV newscast and shows off the push-up machine he invented.

    He invented a push-up machine while in prison for murder. Now he’s at Georgetown

  • Residents of Black neighborhoods across the country are steering their communities’ redevelopment.

    Buying Black
    ‘We have to be part of the solution’: building the Black Wall Streets of tomorrow

  • Nikki High, owner of Octavia’s Bookshelf, Pasadena’s first and only Black-owned bookstore.

    ‘These are my stomping grounds’: the first Black-owned bookstore opens in Octavia Butler’s home town

  • In the aftermath of the protests over the police killing of George Floyd, there was an explosion of Black business lists.

    Buying Black
    Can the surge of Black shopping directories actually help Black businesses?

  • Indie cafe in Brixton takes on hedge fund-backed coffee chain over name

  • The New Face of Small Business
    Rest, recovery and larb tofu: a startup to remedy our postpartum care problem

February 2023

  • Closing down signs in the window of the Paperchase shop on Worcester high street.

    Loss of nearly 15,000 UK retail jobs a ‘brutal start to 2023’, report says

    Majority of job losses are at large retailers such as Tesco and Asda, according to Centre for Retail Research
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