365 Business Finance, a financial provider to small and medium sized companies, has revealed that MOT garages are among the top ten business categories taking up merchant cash advances to expand. According to the direct lender, MOT garages feature eighth in the list of most frequent clients for this type of fast and flexible funding. […]
British entrepreneurs and companies are lagging behind their global competitors when it comes to creating and securing their inventions, with an 8% drop in patents granted domestically in 2018 versus an increase in global (2%) and European patents (20%) granted. According to analysis of the latest WIPO and IPO data by Santander UK, the […]
Ahead of the January 2020 launch by ScotlandIS of a new strategy to turn Scotland into a digital nation, chartered accountant Wylie & Bisset is urging SMEs to review their business processes and procedures to assess opportunities for realising efficiencies from the adoption of digital technologies. ScotlandIS, the trade association championing Scotland’s digital technologies industry, […]
The medical imaging software toolkit company was founded by the late Doctor David Harvey in 1998. As a consultant radiologist, he was passionate about the development of healthcare IT to deliver better patient care. The Company is a well-established medical imaging toolkit provider and has been recognised as a global leader in facilitating the development […]
The National Promotional Institutions of France (Bpifrance), Germany (KfW), Poland (BGK), Spain (ICO) and the United Kingdom (British Business Bank) presented a study in Brussels on the challenges of digitalisation for European small and medium-sized enterprises. The study is based on a first-time joint survey of more than 2,500 SMEs in the participating countries, the […]
Businesses in Britain involved in the import and export of goods with the European Union (EU) should not take the recent further ‘flextension’ to Brexit as an excuse to be lax about preparations, TheCustomsPeople.co.uk has warned. With the latest extension having been granted by the EU for Brexit to be delayed until 31st January 2020, […]
This November, Global Entrepreneurship Week will bring over 10 million people together this year to celebrate entrepreneurship and start-up culture and the removal of barriers, with over 35,000 events planned in over 170 countries. The UK is the home of the GEW movement and this year the GEWUK campaign team is using the huge global […]
More than half of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the UK have changed customer relationship management (CRM) supplier according to the State of the CRM Market 2019 Report from Workbooks. The company also found that a quarter of SMEs have yet to be persuaded of the benefits of CRM and have not yet bought […]
Nucleus Commercial Finance, an alternative finance provider, has today announced changes to its cashflow finance product, delivering more finance options for the UK’s small and medium sized businesses. Following feedback from brokers, the original three year product will now be extended to a maximum term of five years. This change is available to those businesses […]
The uncertain outlook for the UK economy has led to reduced optimism, according to the results of the Q3 2019 RICS UK Construction and Infrastructure Market Survey. With anecdotal evidence from respondents suggests that the housing market slowdown, coupled with unrelenting Brexit and political uncertainty, is weighing on investment decisions. The survey results point to […]
