Having featured companies such as Secret Escapes, Funding Circle and TransferWise in year one of operations, Real Business is once again on the hunt for the companies disrupting stagnant UK industries in a big way.
After pulling together one of the most impressive shortlists in its history, the Growing Business Awards showed once again that the entrepreneurial and business building spirit is alive and well in the UK – with this year’s winners showing what kind of impressive growth can be achieved.
Technology giant Facebook has put diversity at the forefront of its agenda by pairing up with non-profit organisation Inspiring Fifty to champion women in the tech sector.
It’s a case of “the Force is strong” for British film production studio Pinewood, the shooting location of soon-to-be-released Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens, which has experienced a 186 per cent profit growth.
Following chancellor George Osborne’s Spending Review, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has announced that the Business Growth Service (BGS) will soon come to an end.
The CBI’s director-general Carolyn Fairbairn has called the UK’s mid-sized businesses (MSBs) the country’s “missing link” and praised the sector’s £59bn contribution to the economy.
During the 2015 Autumn Statement, it was announced by George Osborne that the government is introducing a penalty fee of 60 per cent of tax due for General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR) as part of the Spending Review.
If you don’t have the time or patience to trawl through the full Autumn Statement and Spending Review document, Real Business has summarised all of chancellor George Osborne’s salient points for your reading pleasure.
Chancellor George Osborne’s Emergency Budget contained little concrete detail about the funding prospects for the nation’s science sector, but the 2015 Autumn Statement and Spending Review has confirmed an increase in investment in catapult centres.
George Osborne revealed during the Autumn Statement 2015 that he will enforce an apprenticeship levy by April 2017 as part of the Spending Review in order to create three million apprenticeships – all of which will be “high quality” as overseen by a body led by business secretary Sajid Javid.
