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Roger Trapp reveals how British firms stand to benefit from higher exports
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News in brief
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Call to young entrepreneursShell LiveWIRE, the scheme that supports, advises and rewards young entrepreneurs, is calling on enterprising young people to compete to be Young Entrepreneur of the Year. The award is worth a total of £11,000 and is open to entrepreneurs aged between 16 and 30.
Soapbox: 'The most successful time for a company is also its most dangerous. The reasons for its success can be its downfall'
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Business history is littered with highly successful and admired companies that then went into decline and ended up beset by crises and outrun by the competition. They failed to understand that the most successful time in a company's life is its most dangerous time, because the very reasons for its success can also be the seeds of its downfall.
Interview: 'We are masters of our own destinies'
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Former PizzaExpress owner Luke Johnson tells Roger Trapp about the thrill of building a business
Business analysis: the public sector has much to gain from small business
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
If words alone made the difference, Britain's entrepreneurs would be kings of the world. By common consent, they – and only they – can lead us out of the financial mess in which we find ourselves. Politicians of all hues seem convinced that small and medium-sized businesses, rather than their larger brethren, are not just going to provide the economy with a much-need boost through their innovative zeal. They also believe they'll pick up the slack created by cutbacks in public services and, along the way, put some meat on the bones of the idea of the Big Society.
Kitchen-table companies score smash hits
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Indie businesses in the creative sector are making major label waves, writes Virginia Matthews
Want to grow your business? It’s time to get social
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Only a little while ago, networking for most growing businesses meant squeezing a few hours out of an already busy day to attend an indifferent lunch with a few other business people of various kinds in a nearby hotel or restaurant.
Soapbox: ‘SMEs are exploiting the benefits of unified communications solutions to deliver a more personal service’
Thursday, 10 March 2011
As we face the threat of a prolonged economic slowdown, the whole of Europe continues to look toward small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to pull us out of the recession.
Business Extra: News in Brief
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Energy boostCella Energy has been named the 2011 winner of the Shell Springboard Awards, which support small businesses with ideas for combating climate change.
Mind the gap: the business of recession
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Having been in business for nearly 40 years, Graham Bultitude has seen no fewer than four recessions. Each has been different, of course. But there are nevertheless general conclusions to be drawn. “For a lot of small companies, recessions can be a good and a bad thing,” explains Bultitude, who started Bristol Batteries, selling mainly car batteries in 1972, just in time to be hit by the oil shock and resulting recession of the early 1970s.
Recovery doesn’t come cheap – we’re going to need a bigger Budget
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Continuing political unrest in the Middle East – and, with it, a real risk that furtherrises in an already high oil price could hold back any economic growth in Britain–means that Chancellor George Osborne has rather limited room for manoeuvre in his Budget, due to be announced later this month.
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