The UK employment rate has been increasing since 2012 and in the last three months to January 2015, it reached a record high of 73.3 per cent. The chancellor was encouraged by the latest release of labour market statistics.
Academy Award winning film Big Hero 6 has received great praise, but what makes the movie so thrilling – apart from the cute antics of healthcare robot Baymax – is the portrayal of real-world science. Believe it or not, Baymax was inspired by several existing robots and research in the field.
Britain's automotive industry is still going strong. In 2014 the UK built over 1.6m cars and 2.5m engines, of which exports accounted for 80 per cent of production. With the nation being the second largest producer of premium cars in the world, the opportunity for automotive suppliers to invest in the UK has never been more valuable, offering local sourcing of components that UK vehicle makers require.
A recent OC&C Strategy Consultant study, which analyses the fastest-growing retailers in the UK and the biggest Western retail markets (the US, France, the Nordics, Germany and the Netherlands), revealed that the UK has been a retail growth hotspot.
Despite making up just 0.5 per cent of UK businesses, medium-sized businesses (MSBs) account for a fifth of employment and 25 per cent of UK turnover. In 2013 it was believed that a disturbing gap in export finance was shackling the international ambitions of MSBs and could damage the UK economy’s long-term prospects. This pattern seems to have shifted.
Jeremy Clarkson is no stranger to being told off by BBC bosses. He once joked that lorry drivers “murder prostitutes”, referred to a Ferrari as "having special needs” and called Gordon Brown a “one-eyed Scottish idiot”. But this time he may have gone a little too far.
What mindset will our leaders, workforces, students and young people need to tackle the problems of this century We've scoured the web for the most quirkiest suggestions.
Younger generations are no longer pinning all their hopes on finding the perfect job – instead taking controlling their destiny and creating a business around a skill, passion or hobby.
Despite the rise of ecommerce, and perceived decline of the high street, a staggering 89 per cent of UK retail still occurs offline. Of this, 50 per cent of home and fashion items are researched online, and then purchased locally, in bricks and mortar shops. This has uniquely positioned Everline Future 50 mobile app StreetHub to help shoppers find products in independent home and fashion boutiques.
Trillion Fund, featured in this year's Everline Future 50 list, was founded in 2011 by Michael Stein and Phillip Riches to open up opportunities to profit from clean energy to everyone, through crowdfunding.
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