Companies
An inability to recruit and keep the right people, and a skills mismatch are hitting companies’ bottom lines, according to a global PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of CEOs...
Lloyds Banking Group lost £3.5billion during the year to 31 December 2011. However, the overwhleming majority of that loss came after the bank had to set aside £3...
There is considerable hype building around the Facebook IPO - making it the most anticipated floatation in the technology sector since Google...
The scale of problems faced by UK retailers was revealed yesterday when it emerged that even supermarket giant Tesco has been experiencing problems...
The UK economy may be suffering from the economic downturn - but not so one of the country's most famous and exclusive brands...
Struggling retail group Blacks Leisure has revealed that it will enter a brief period of administration as part of a takeover deal...
A number of UK travel companies and tour operators will struggle to survive in 2012 unless they radically change their business models and adapt to a fundamentally new market environment, according to advisory firm KPMG...
The Government has announced that it is selling Northern Rock to Virgin Money. It said the deal represented a significant step in returning public sector stakes in banks to the private sector - adding that the sale was in the best interests of the taxpayer, secured the long-term future of the company and would increase competition in the banking sector...
Abolishing legal aid for employment advice will have the perverse effect of increasing the number of cases that end up at an employment tribunal, national charity Citizens Advice has warned...
A new taskforce targeting scrap metal dealers who are deliberately failing to pay the right amount of tax has been launched by H M Revenue & Customs...
It all starts with a letter or email: "Dear Accounts Payable department, our bank details have changed to the following...
Britain’s leading pub and restaurant groups saw collective like-for-like sales grow 2.8% in September, according to latest Coffer Peach Business Tracker data...
Effective leadership is important to long-term business success. Yet new research from talent management consultancy, DDI, and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development - UK Highlights: Global Leadership Forecast - reveals that only a third (36%) of UK leaders and one in five (18%) UK HR professionals rate the quality of leadership as "high" in their organisations...
UK manufacturers are reporting healthy order books and expectations for output growth are above their long-run average, according to the CBI...
Research by Legal & General using Department for Work and Pensions statistics and reports has revealed that less than a fifth of employers are taking adequate steps to provide support for stressed employees in the workplace, despite stress being a leading cause of workplace absences...
The Government has published a consultation on proposals to encourage investment in small and start-up businesses with high-growth potential, through the reform and simplification of the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs)...
The mega private equity deal is back in the UK, according to the latest management buyout research from KPMG...
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith will today tell British firms that they should look to take on jobless young Britons before recruiting workers from abroad...
Online stockbroker and fund supermarket Interactive Investor www.iii.co.uk has this week opened up AIM stocks to its spread betting and CFD derivatives traders...
Argos and Homebase owner Home Retail Group is said to be talks to buy the Habitat brand for between £20-30million from private equity group Hilco...
Two in three people claim to have been victims of workplace bullying, according to a poll conducted by Monster...
Nearly one in five UK employees feel their workplace has changed in the past year and their employer now cares less about their health and wellbeing, according to research by healthcare provider Simplyhealth...
Following the Government initiative that finished in England more than a year ago, British Gas has launched a new boiler scrappage scheme...
Britain's 4.7 million small businesses are struggling to understand and cope with complicated business regulation, costing them millions in fines and lost revenue every year, according to Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks...
The number of businesses which believe banks are being unsupportive has increased, according to insolvency trade body R3's Business Distress Index...
The state of the UK's retail health - as measured by the Retail Health Index - fell in quarter 1, according to new figures from the KPMG/Synovate Retail Think Tank...
The latest figures from the Finance & Leasing Association show that sales of consumer credit through high street retailers were slow in February, a traditionally quiet month...
UK consumers could save nearly a quarter (23%) on their energy bills by moving to the cheapest available product - meaning a staggering saving of £3...
The employment tribunal system is failing businesses and individuals, the CBI believes. It is meant to offer claimants and companies informal, quick and cost-effective judgements, but instead the system is slow, legalistic and antagonistic...
The retail operation of UK banks should be kept "ring-fenced" from their investment banking arms, according to recommendations from the Independent Commission on Banking...
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