This year’s Amazon Prime Day, which is widely expected to be 5 October, will be the last one before new VAT changes hit British shoppers in January, warns the international home delivery expert ParcelHero. It cautions that British online shoppers who purchase items from international sellers will soon see a 20% rise in the price […]
Lancashire County Council’s Rosebud Fund, which invests between £10,000 and £300,000 in businesses across the region, has reached a lending milestone of £2m. Since GC Business Finance was appointed to deliver the fund in July 2019, Rosebud has made 16 investments which have enabled businesses across Lancashire to expand and has directly resulted in the […]
Birmingham-based hybrid cloud cybersecurity company, METCloud recently urged small-medium enterprise owners to update their understanding and attitudes towards IT and cybersecurity. This comes at a time when reported cases of cyber crimes continue to increase while the UK economy pushes hard to recover in the ‘new normal’ due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The cybersecurity breaches […]
Thousands of businesses that wish to make claims under the job retention scheme up until the end of June need to do so by the end of the month or lose out, but many may not be aware, say leading tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg Andrew Sanford, a partner at the firm said: “Claims […]
RSM called on government today to urgently consider extending the temporary Covid-19 regulatory relief – the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act – to three months beyond the date on which it is currently set to end. The leading audit, tax and consulting firm says an extension will allow consumer-facing businesses more time to bolster their […]
UK manufacturing exports fell sharply in Q2 2020, according to the Lloyds Bank International Trade Index. The speed of decline was the fastest since data collection began in 1996, driven by the impact of coronavirus on both international supply chains and falling overseas demand for British goods and services. The Index hit a new low […]
Locate in Kent has today announced the launch of Business Lab, a series of bite-sized leadership courses designed to help business owners, business leaders and entrepreneurs to plan for their future in the post-lockdown economic landscape. Throughout summer 2020, the programme of short courses will be delivered in a live virtual learning environment, where participants […]
With many commuters shunning the prospect of rail travel and season tickets, a marked reduction in road use outside cities and a shift towards remote working and home shopping, an overhaul of how the UK builds and manages transport and public mobility will be required. The survey’s results show why investment in road, rail and […]
FOLK2FOLK, the local lending company, announces its partnership with the institutional digital debt marketplace CrossLend as it continues to build its institutional investor-base. FOLK2FOLK facilitates loans to credit-worthy businesses seeking finance to grow, develop or diversify, funded by retail and institutional investors looking for a secured and inflation-beating return on their capital. The economic recovery […]
Chartered Accountants Wylie & Bisset has said that the lockdown restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic acted as a prompt to many clients to make the switch to digital accounting as part of a process of transformation into digital workspaces. Partner Andrew Cowling said that lockdown had acted as a spur for some of Wylie […]
