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National Business Awards 2009 winners announced
The National Business Awards are very much the UK’s business Oscars, celebrating the success of businesses large and small. SmallBizPod is at the awards ceremony and will keep you up-to-date with the winners as they’re announced.
Women entrepreneurs pessimistic or realistic about growth?
Over a third of women business owners (36.7%) are forecasting 10% revenue growth in 2009/10 according to findings of a major report on UK entrepreneurship. But female entrepreneurs are a lot more cautious than men when it comes to assessing their prospects.
Big decline in UK business failures in Q3 2009
Although businesses big and small continue to go into insolvency and the situation is worse than a year ago, the rate of firms going bust in Q3 has fallen by 13.5% compared to Q2 according to the latest figures from Equifax’s 2009 Business Failure Report.
Current inflation rate – September 09
The latest official figures from the Office of National Statistics show the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) taking a further fall during September 2009 with inflation for the month at 1.1% compared to 1.6% in August.
Small businesses failing to secure against ID theft
Steps to shred sensitive documents seem like common sense, but large numbers of SMEs are failing to act to prevent criminals from taking advantage of lax security, according to a new survey released today as part of a national campaign to prevent identity fraud.
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