UK Business News

Norwegian Account Reconciliation Software experts Adra Match have announced the opening of a dedicated office in London after 20 years of trading in Norway.
Adra Match specializes in software for the correlation of data for the reconciliation of accounts within an organisation.
Account match can work independently while working with data from different sources and [...]

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Hauliers across the UK are uniting today in protest at the governments planned fuel tax increase, the drivers will congregate at Marble Arch in London for a rally, while a delegation from Transaction 2007 will deliver a petition to the Prime Minister demanding the introduction of a fuel duty rebate.
The lorry drivers consider that the [...]

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High Street retail sales fell by 0.2% last month, a similar fall to that in March, a smaller decline than had been expected by the City, ruling out the slim chance of another cut in interest rates.
Sales on food and household goods showed some signs of reduction, but these were outweighed by strong demand for [...]

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An independent study indicates that small business and the public at large have felt absolutely no benefit from the freeing up of the Royal Mail’s monopoly two years ago.
Big business is the big winner here, tying up lucrative mass mailing contracts with
companies who will print, batch and pre-sort prior to handing-off to Royal Mail to [...]

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1st of May saw the launch of O2’s Business Broadband offering - a deal which includes 24/7 UK-based telephone support and also on-site support in the price.
O2 has recognised the need to get sensible and is rolling out a white-label BT wholesale product rather than attempting to unbundle 5,500 exchanges.
The service starts at £15 per month [ex-VAT] for existing [...]

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