FSB NI Chair Alan Lowry has urged politicians to prioritise small businesses, cut rising costs, and create conditions for investment and jobs to drive growth…
Read more...By Peter Adams, Editor, CLH News. It’s rare that I start an editorial with genuine enthusiasm about government action affecting our sector, but this week’s…
Read more...Small businesses across the UK will benefit from the most comprehensive support package in a generation, as the government launches a bold new plan to…
Read more...Heavy-handed personal guarantees are “shackling” ambition and risk holding back the growth the economy needs, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has warned. Research by…
Read more...A major new report from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in partnership with Zurich UK, New Growth: How to support small businesses to cut…
Read more...The latest insight from The Global Payroll Association (GPA), reveals that 89% of small-to-medium sized businesses (SMEs) in the UK have reduced their workforce since…
Read more...The Government must now make good on its statements that growth is its number one priority – its recent call for regulators to put forward…
Read more...Following on from a successful first season, hosts Lucy Branson and Ruth Baker embark on Season Two with their conversational chat covering hot topics in…
Read more...Research by the Federation of Small Business (FSB) has found that confidence among small firms has been in negative territory for seven straight quarters, due…
Read more...July saw GDP fall by 0.5%, dampening hopes of a third quarter recovery in small business confidence levels Responding to Office for National Statistics figures…
Read more...Downbeat economic conditions in the second quarter dampen upswing in confidence registered in the first quarter, but medium-term optimism recovers among small firms • The…
Read more...Business growth lost momentum in the last three months to June after bouncing back strongly earlier this year, according to the latest NatWest survey of…
Read more...Trade associations representing high-street businesses including pubs, breweries, hairdressers, local shops and other small businesses have today written to the Chair of the newly formed…
Read more...Small businesses face surging interest rates on lending, with the average rate on new bank loans written increasing fivefold from just 0.98% in May 2020…
Read more...Small firms’ confidence in the final quarter of 2022 plunged to a depth almost on a par with that measured during the second Covid lockdown…
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