By Simon Brooke
Are you feeling energised and confident as you sit down at your desk or set off to see a client at the start of another week If you’re not, you should be, says Jonathan Richards.
By Simon Brooke
Walk down any street in Britain or glance at office workers hanging around the entrance to their building and you’ll see people ‘vaping’. The market for electronic cigarettes is growing rapidly with use of e-cigarettes, which was up by 75per cent last year to reach £459m, according Euromonitor.
By Simon Brooke
Dropping your child off at nursery before you go to work can be a surprisingly traumatic experience for parents and children. For many mothers and fathers concerns about how their kids are being treated can be distracting, and it was this concern that one nursery tried to address.
By Simon Brooke
As the party conference draws to a close, each of the three main political parties – and many of the smaller parties – have been talking about what they’d do for the country’s SMEs.
By Simon Brooke
As the debate over skinny female models rages – Victoria Beckham demanded an end to the size zero look in September – it’s ironic that, away from the glamorous world of fashion, British women are actually getting larger.
By Simon Brooke
It’s a phrase that is normally associated with bad media headlines and political controversy, but for former graphic designer Chris Holbrook, “Post Code Lottery” has been very good news.
By Simon Brooke
While academic study might not be at the top of the agenda for several returning college students, beer most likely will be. They could also think of saving money by brewing it themselves – which was the case for Alex Dixon and Ralph Broadbent.
By Simon Brooke
As the hit BBC show draws to a close once more, we look at how Biscuiteers has channeled the nation’s love of cakes, cookies and croissants to produce a fast-growing business stocking retailers such as Harrods and Fortnum & Mason.
To provide you with the inside scoop on what Facebook is planning in the way of business services, we took a trip to the social media company’s London base to speak with SMB director for EMEA Ciaran Quilty about Pages, advertising and the exploding medium of video.
By Simon Brooke
New regulations introduced this week, requiring shoppers in England pay 5p for a plastic bag and hoping to reduce the 7.6bn bags shoppers use every year, will please some consumers while annoying others. However, the change is music to the ears of one SME.
