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The Apprentice 2010 contestants

The Apprentice 2010 contestants

Our favourite TV show is back. Lord Alan Sugar will be back, putting a band of loons through their paces in the toughest ‘job interview’, with series six of The Apprentice premiering on Wednesday 6 October at 9pm on BBC One. Today, let’s meet the contestants - (All odds provided by the Online Betting Guide [...]

Is the other Miliband good or bad for business?

Is the other Miliband good or bad for business?

What does the new labour (well old labour) mean for small businesses and entrepreneurs in general? Sadly Winston Churchill’s notion that making the rich poorer won’t make the poor richer doesn’t seem to have sunk in for Ed Milliband given that he intends to squeeze the wealth creators of this country for every penny – [...]

Slough’s Enterprise Quarter is flourishing

Slough’s Enterprise Quarter is flourishing

Entrepreneurs are still launching and growing businesses even in the current economic climate. In fact Slough’s thriving enterprise quarter has just announced that several new businesses have just taken office space there. TRI Healthcare, a supplier of healthcare products, Echo Supplements, a provider of dietary supplements, Tube UK, a sound equipment supplier and UK South [...]

Equal pay is still 50 years away

Equal pay is still 50 years away

According to the 2010 National Management Salary Survey conducted by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), UK businesses are still more than five decades away from paying men and women equally. The study found that female salaries increased by 2.8 per cent over the last 12 months, compared to 2.3 per cent for men. However, with [...]

Holidaymakers’ hunt for bargains is costing UK bosses £3bn

Holidaymakers’ hunt for bargains is costing UK bosses £3bn

This summer office workers have spent more than eight hours researching and booking holidays at their desks - costing UK businesses up to £3billion. A new study by employment law specialists ELAS revealed that the average British worker spends as much as 8hrs 24mins at their office computer researching and booking their next holiday. As well as spending extra time researching flights and [...]

How to fund your business (the new way) with Funding Circle

How to fund your business (the new way) with Funding Circle

Funding circle, a groundbreaking new venture set to take the business world by storm will enable savers to sidestep banks and lend directly to small businesses. Funding Circle offers savings to businesses of 25% on the total cost of funding, not to mention the fact that many banks have been less that forthcoming with funding [...]

Voucher code website generates £1 for UK retail sales per visitor

Voucher code website generates £1 for UK retail sales per visitor

www.shoppingvouchers.co.uk has announced that every customer who visits the site is generating an incredible £1 for UK retail sales. Launched in July 2009, by internet marketing company, 3Convert, www.shoppingvouchers.co.uk is one of the UK’s fastest growing money saving websites. It has nearly 250,000 members, 1,000 new members joining every day and 25,000 page impressions a [...]

New Redundancy-Survival Website launches

New Redundancy-Survival Website launches

CareerFox.co.uk offers redundant workers essential information, advice (and hope), in their efforts to cope with their job-loss and get back to work. The website delivers in-depth guidance on all aspects of redundancy, from personal finance and well-being to finding a new job or starting a business.