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Small business

June 2024

  • Peter and Helleentje stand with Billy, a large white lurcher, lying between them, in a low greenhouse full of funnel shaped carnivorous pitcher plants

    ‘It was a nightmare. It still is’: the cost of doing business, eight years after Brexit

  • Jess Christman holding a piece of plank of wood

    ‘People have gone bust’: the small business owners struggling to pay back Covid loans

  • Smiling woman wearing grey suit looks at someone with tables, a computer and chairs in the back

    As Wall Street pulls away from DEI, Goldman Sachs backs Black women: ‘Our commitment is strong’

  • View from above of an Amazon ‘fulfilment centre’ in Wales with rows of stacked shelves

    Independent UK retailers claim £1bn damages against Amazon

May 2024

  • Lola Chatainier, Croque Monsieur's manager, at the French cafe in Melbourne

    Decline of the pre-work coffee: why more Australians are skipping their weekday cafe breakfasts

  • A white SumUp payment terminal held in someone’s hand

    Consumer champions
    My SumUp card reader has been blocked and I can’t afford new one

  • A young child reads a book outside at a nursery school

    All parents, working or not, should have access to childcare, say experts in England

  • The City of London skyline with a cluster of skyscrapers including the Walkie Talkie

    ‘Unfair banking’ and ‘damaging’ financial rules harming UK’s small firms, MPs warn

  • TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: How Snapchat is saving itself – and keeping up with Silicon Valley giants

  • From sporrans to chandeliers: King Charles and Queen Camilla weigh up new royal warrants

  • What is a US small business? One owner explains

April 2024

  • Tesco bought Booker in 2017, promising that the deal would benefit shoppers and independent retailers.

    Tesco accused of undercutting local shops via its wholesale business

  • Seaside town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, Great Britain, Europe<br>BPK9EP Seaside town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, Great Britain, Europe

    ‘As transparent as a brick wall’: British firms fight back against ‘Business Improvement Districts’

  • Daniel Adams of Stationery House with Clevedon Bid Out poster

    ‘It’s torn the town apart’: seaside shops rebel over ‘waste of money’ improvements levy

  • Rachel Reeves speaks in the House of Commons

    How realistic is Labour’s aspiration to cut tax gap by £5bn?

  • ‘Our margins are threadbare’: UK’s craft beer scene says it’s on the brink

  • ‘Our profits could disappear’: small UK businesses hit out at new import fees

March 2024

  • a woman pours wine into wine glasses

    Her first visit to wine country was ‘anything but pleasant’. So this Black ex-techie created a community

    Fern Stroud got inspired on a later wine tour in South Africa, so after a pandemic layoff, she started her business, sip by sip
  • Kelly Robinson-Key, AKA 'Kelly The Poet'.

    It’s daylight e-robbery: how entrepreneurs feel powerless as their work is ripped off

    It’s no longer just familiar designer goods that are faked. Counterfeiters now spread their net much wider
  • 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
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