Category: Business News

Chancellor John Healey has delivered his first Autumn Budget against a challenging backdrop of rising living costs, stubborn inflation and pressure on the public finances.

Image by USDAgov on Wikimedia Commons A warehouse can feel short of space when the real difficulty is reaching stock efficiently. Fast-moving cartons, reserve pallets and awkward loads place different demands on the same floor. Before comparing rack heights or

Small- and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are under growing pressure to match the convenience offered by larger retailers, with nearly eight in ten (79%) saying their customers expect them to offer more than debit payments at checkout.

Small business owners within the Business Buzz network are absorbing rising costs, delaying investment and reconsidering recruitment rather than risk losing customers to further price rises, according to a new snapshot survey from the UK networking community.

Warwickshire based agency AlphaQuad Digital Marketing has launched a series of free CPD approved workshops to help local businesses and individuals understand which digital channels deliver results, and where marketing investment is genuinely worthwhile.

HMRC’s latest benefit-in-kind figures record 920,000 employees taxed on a company car in 2024/25, up 80,000 in a single year and within sight of the 2016 peak, with fully electric cars now accounting for 51% of them.

Most SMEs don’t mess up their CRM because they chose the wrong one. They mess it up because they half-set it up, let bad habits take over, and then just leave it. The tool ends up gathering dust, or even worse, it fills up with data that nobody trusts an

A couple of years ago, most small business owners were watching AI from the sidelines. It looked expensive, complicated, and like something built for companies with proper tech teams. That’s changed quickly. According to the British Chambers of Commerce,

Marketing teams have spent the past decade building increasingly precise attribution models. Multi-touch models, Urchin Tracking Module (UTM) parameters, and Google Analytics 4 (GA4) event tracking now map a prospect’s route through paid search, organic

Award-winning UK travel-tech start-up Reeltrip has launched the next stage of its platform, bringing travel discovery and hotel booking together in one video-first experience. Now, with native booking live and its travel ecosystem growing, the business is look

There are now a record 5.17 million vans on UK roads, according to the SMMT’s 2025 Motorparc data, with more than a million added over the past decade. The vast majority are diesels working hard under load, day in and day out, and the turbochargers bolte

Small and medium-sized firms in Britain still type planning-suite names when cash is the problem that keeps them awake. A new analysis of UK search behaviour finds that demand for CRM and ERP software is running about 6.7 times higher than demand for the tools