The number of civil servants being recommended for New Year’s honours has almost doubled over the past two years, with several members of the financial sector fitting the bill. However, HMRC chief executive Lin Homer’s appointment to damehood has been seen as a controversial move.
With an ongoing skills gap, you may think the British workforce would like to learn new things, but 25 per cent of office workers believe it’s increasingly more difficult to learn new software as time passes on.
According to the executive chairman of Google’s parents company Alphabet, Eric Schmidt, the UK is the world leader in terms of ecommerce.
A British medal-winning Badminton player has decided to turn her back on the sport and instead dedicate her future to opening up a branch of the business her father owns.
The ten big brands that are leading the way for social media marketing have been revealed by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) UK, however, the report has found that there’s still room for improvement – that’s your time to shine, SME leaders.
With the government committed to doubling exports to £1tn by 2020, the CBI is calling for an independent, national exports commission to be established.
The ten most engaging Christmas ads from the country’s high street retailers have been revealed by emotion measurement platform Realeyes, which found that Brits have fallen out of love with disconnected John Lewis – despite the hype.
Research commissioned by American Express and undertaken by the Centre for Economics and Business Research, claimed the value of the Christmas period to small retailers hit £13.9bn in 2014.
Love Home Swap CEO Debbie Wosskow, who is also the chair of SEUK, has shown off her sharing economy savvy to acquire Holland-based rival HomeForExchange.
Small UK retailers are running the risk of Christmas sales crumbling this festive season by ignoring card payment trends, says EE, which has listed the 11 cities across the country where consumers have the highest dependency on cards – and London isn’t the leader.
