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Tag: Consumer Spending
Forget Brexit, slow demand is now the biggest headache for UK business
By Jan Cavelle
Slow consumer demand on the high street is combining badly with spikes in inflation to create a tricky situation for business owners, who are spending less time planning for Brexit as a result. Whether or not this is “head in the sand behaviour is up for debate.
October 2017 economic statistics: All the figures SMEs need to know
Andrew Sentance’s prediction came true. The PwC economic adviser maintained last month that interest rates were to rise a matter recently confirmed by Bank of England governor Mark Carney. We take a closer look in our October 2017 economic statistics piece.
Brits rack up an eye-watering sum on lunch over their working lives
Over the course of their working lives, Brits spend so much money on lunch that they may want to start making time for packing cheese and cucumber sarnies before leaving the house each day.
Small Business Saturday spending climbs to ?717m in 2016
Small Business Saturday sales for 2016 amounted to a spend of ?717m a growth of 15 per cent year-on-year.
Consumer spending in the UK reached six-month high in October
Consumer spending in the UK reached a six-month high In October, according to Visa, and it was the hospitality and leisure industry that led the way for the period in terms of strongest growth.
Britain’s hospitality and leisure industries profit from increased consumer spend
Spending among British shoppers has risen and the amount spent on hotels, restaurants and bars was the greatest at an increase of 8.6 per cent, according to Visa Europe’s UK expenditure index.