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World Mental Health Day: Managing mental health advice for small business owners

Dan Martin - 7 October 2026

ASOS cyber attacked in apparent hack: Lessons and advice for small businesses

Energy

What was in Andy Burnham’s Labour Party Conference speech for businesses?

Apprenticeship

Chancellor pledges ‘a new age of industrialisation’ and £100 million fund for apprenticeships

Business Finance

Business rates

September retail sales hit seven-year low

Dan Martin - 6 October 2026 0

This September was the weakest for total retail sales in seven years, excluding the pandemic period. Total like-for-like sales in the discretionary retail categories fell...

More than a million sole traders and landlords impacted by next stage of Making Tax Digital

5 October 2026

What was in Andy Burnham’s Labour Party Conference speech for businesses?

29 September 2026

Chancellor pledges ‘a new age of industrialisation’ and £100 million fund for apprenticeships

28 September 2026

New £140 million fund for East of England businesses

23 September 2026

Entrepreneurship

Rio Ferdinand, Deborah Meaden and Simon Squibb among judges for start-up pitching competition with $200,000 top prize

Dan Martin - 8 October 2026 0

Alibaba.com has announced the return of CoCreate Pitch Europe, its product-based start-up competition. With prizes from a $1 million global fund shared across the...

Twenty years of fresh thinking: What can office fruit teach us about building a business that lasts?

7 October 2026

Refugee entrepreneurs ‘could boost the UK economy by £2 billion’ if barriers were tackled

15 September 2026

Full transcript of John Healey’s growth speech

8 September 2026

Entrepreneur Alex Depledge reappointed as entrepreneurship adviser to the chancellor

3 September 2026

MARKETING

Business rates

September retail sales hit seven-year low

6 October 2026

Finance

Small Business Commissioner Emma Jones CBE: How small business owners can make the most of August

4 August 2026

Editor's Choice

Why review management matters for UK small businesses

30 July 2026

Business rates

Small business growth ambitions at ‘lowest ever level’

17 July 2026

Finance

Pubs allowed to stay open for full Norway v England World Cup game – even if kick-off delayed

11 July 2026

News

Government allows pubs to stay open until 5am to show England v Mexico World Cup game

2 July 2026

Technology

ASOS cyber attacked in apparent hack: Lessons and advice for small businesses

Dan Martin - 6 October 2026 0

Customers of online retailer ASOS have received a push notification claiming that the company has been hacked. With the heading 'ASOS HACKED', the message said:...