The 'Brand Finance Banking 500', conducted by The Banker, is a league table of the world’s biggest banks, ranked by their brand value, has found that the UK’s banks collectively lost three per cent of their value this year.
Ahead of the 2015 general election, Real Business rounded up a handful of entrepreneurs and executives to discuss the issues small businesses face from the government, and the changes they would like to see by the next party in power.
Business lending is set to grow for the first time in six years in 2015 as credit-crunch hit banks finally “find their feet” in the recovering economy.
Skills shortages and staff turnover continue to be an issue for businesses in Q1 2015, found recent ICAEW and Grant Thornton Confidence Monitor. After three quarters of strong growth, capital investment figures have slowed and salary growth remains muted.
Only one in five UK SMEs currently export. This is a worrying statistic given that businesses are 11 per cent more likely to survive if they export, according to CBI. And despite recent government focus on gender equality, women are an even smaller part of the equation. We talked to former Dragon Kelly Hoppen about the export gender divide.
The best destination for technology startups is London, according to research carried out by Pinsent Masons and Mergermarket of Europe’s most attractive cities for entrepreneurial ambitions.
According to research there are only 30,000 high growth small businesses (HGSB) in the UK, which accounts for a small percentage of the 7m businesses in this country. And yet these HGSBs generated 68 per cent of jobs and in 2013 had an annual turnover of £114.4bn, creating £55bn of Gross Value Added (GVA).
Forget the Billion Dollar Club, let’s create the Billion Pound Club, says Powa CEO Dan Wagner.
The Facebook SME Bootcamp came to London on 26 January, marking the first event of its kind for Europe. The idea is to teach companies how the social network can be used not just for selfies, status updates and spying on old school friends, but as a legitimate business-growing channel that can produce impressive revenues and customer awareness.
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