Scottish entrepreneur Michelle Mone has stepped down from her board positions at MJM International and Ultimo Brands International, freeing her up to focus on what she has identified as “new business interests” and responsibility to promote entrepreneurship in disadvantaged areas.
With lingerie entrepreneur Michelle Mone becoming the latest high-powered business woman to be given a government position – joining the likes of Karren Brady and Martha Lane Fox – is it just an ongoing move by David Cameron to boost his appeal with women
The desire for British businesses to export to countries further afield than the EU has seen the amount of goods shipped to Asian nation China grow by 12 per cent during 2014 – meaning it now sits at number six in the top ten list.
By Jan Cavelle
Home secretary Theresa May has called for urgent changes amid the ongoing Channel Tunnel crisis. However, with little actually being done to sway the situation, Jan Cavelle questions whether the government has created a stable environment for businesses to grow in.
Thanks to some entrepreneurial spirit and a little help from the government, the much beleaguered high street is showing signs of resilience and recovery.
By Jan Cavelle
While the chancellor’s plans to merge national insurance with income tax, close the loop hole in civil service pay and further reduce the deficit makes sense, the government has provided a safe haven for education’s chronic second raters.
By Roger Thorpe
The last month has seen a flurry of commentary and advice from business leaders around our education system. Some of it repeats the annual bashing of school leavers, but overall it has been difficult to discern what problem we are actually trying to solve.
We keep being told one of the biggest threats to the economy is poor productivity. Finding the exact cause of the so-called “productivity puzzle” is as tricky as navigating London’s sewers without a torch.
As part of the British productivity push, Eileen Burbidge, partner at London-based venture capital firm Passion Capital, has been named the government’s special envoy of British fintech.
On the eve of chancellor George Osborne unveiling the government’s approach to improving the UK’s dire productivity level, Real Business is launching our new focus, which will examine what business leaders themselves can do to make their operations more streamlined and efficient.
