According to the latest statistics, the average business spends between 5 – 12% of their annual turnover on marketing. While millions of organisations – particularly those operating in B2C sectors – perceive digital marketing as fundamental to driving sales and resulting business growth, other business owners still need convincing of its value, and often […]Read More

The Insolvency Service is to be given powers to investigate directors of companies that have been dissolved, closing a legal loophole and acting as a strong deterrent against the misuse of the dissolution process. The process will no longer be able to be used as a method of fraudulently avoiding repayment of Government backed loans […]Read More

Entrepreneur and author Steven Bartlett is to join Dragons’ Den, becoming the youngest Dragon in the programme’s history. The 28-year-old will join Dragons Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Touker Suleyman and Sara Davies for the 19th series of the BBC One programme. Bartlett is the founder and former CEO of social media marketing agency The […]Read More

BT is to accelerate the expansion of its full-fibre broadband infrastructure and to explore a joint venture to help to fund the extra investment. Britain’s biggest telecoms group said that it would increase its full-fibre programme by five million premises, with a target of reaching 25 million homes by the end of 2026. BT’s […]Read More

The government needs to keep up spending on public transport, even though its usage has plummeted during the Covid pandemic, a government adviser has said. Commuter numbers could drop by a quarter due to more home working, Sir John Armitt, head of the National Infrastructure Commission, said. But the government need to “hold their nerve” […]Read More

The economy coped better than expected in the latest lockdown as businesses successfully adapted to social distancing rules, official figures show. Although output contracted 1.5 per cent in the first three months of the year, this was stronger than the 1.7 per cent fall forecast by economists. It was also a considerable improvement on the […]Read More

Britain’s exports to the European Union have almost recovered after plummeting by 40 per cent at the start of the year, official figures show. Goods exports to the EU rose by 8.6 per cent to £12.7 billion in March, according to the Office for National Statistics. This is close to the £13.7 billion recorded in […]Read More

The European Union’s crackdown on big American technology companies was dealt a blow yesterday as Amazon won a legal battle over the payment of €250 million in back taxes. The bloc’s General Court ruled that Amazon was not handed an illegal tax deal by Luxembourg, which is home to the company’s European base. The EU […]Read More

A luxury concierge service founded by Ben Elliot, co-chairman of the Conservative Party, has admitted to a string of accounting failures and making illegal payments to shareholders. Quintessentially paid £1.4 million to shareholders when it did not have adequate reserves to do so. Elliot and his business partners Aaron Simpson and Paul Drummond are among […]Read More

People could be forced to verify their age before using social media platforms under government plans to protect children. Facebook, Google, Twitter and other tech giants will face huge fines if under-age children can access their services as part of a new duty of care to be enforced by Ofcom. The government’s new online safety […]Read More