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  It’s just all doom and gloom at the moment, isn’t it? It feels like reading the financial section at the moment should come with a mental health warning: “may cause uncontrollable feelings of impending doom”. Heck, even this blog gets pretty depressing at times. Sorry about that. But is it really that bad? Only [...]

Each month we look how people have successfully turned their hobby into their profession. This month we start this feature with perhaps one of the most popular hobbies, photography. Here we will be discussing the most important factors and issues you may come across when you set up your own business as a freelance photographer. [...]

This week we’ve seen one of the UK’s best supported football clubs going into administration. Rangers Football Club was effectively forced to bring in their own administrators when HMRC started proceedings to have a court appoint administrators to run the club. The move to put Rangers in administration could see the club losing many of [...]

  While the present economic and global financial climate may seem bleak time for most, the advice for the moment is to sit tight through the recession because the ‘gray period’ won’t last forever. Don’t fear, SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) growth 20 years from now is looking positive but it won’t be what we [...]

  We have been hearing a lot recently about Chief Executives and their bonuses but what has been happening? Today Stephen Hester, RBS boss, has spoken out after rejecting his near £1m bonus. When asked why he turned down the bonus, he said: “I took the judgement that it was going to be damaging for [...]

  I don’t want to be offensive to the punk community, but it’s not very often that they have an in depth point to make; they more often than not just cry, off with their heads. They often fail to see the lines of commonality that bind there anarchist dreams to those of all the [...]

  We’ve got another guest post today! We’re all looking at ways to save money right now, and cutting back the costs involved with having a mobile broadband service is certainly one area where the are some definite savings to be made. This has been kindly contributed by Rob Clymo on behalf of Broadband Genie. [...]

Record quarterly reports that completely blew market expectations out of the water have led to Apple regaining its position as the world’s most valuable company. The company’s first-quarter profits have now more than doubled year-on-year, in turn leading to the company’s share price jumping by 6.65pc to $448.5 per share in early trading. This in [...]

  The former boss of the French company at the centre of the substandard breast implant scandal has been arrested. Jean-Claude Mas (72) and his former chief executive Claude Couty were both arrested in South-East France earlier today. Already having been charged as part of a parallel fraud case, the two are now facing the [...]

In this is the fourth edition of our monthly business Case Study, we focus on United Polymers, a thermoplastics manufacturer based in Coventry. United Polymers specialise in the manufacture and distribution of several types of plastics and polymers to the injection moulding industry.  The company has a strong customer base in this industry and is [...]