UK Business News

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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The Financial Services Authority [FSA] is planning to introduce bigger fines and jail time  for insider traders.
Figures indicate insider dealing is rampant in the UK with between a quarter and a third of takeovers being subject to so-called “informed price movements”.
Notwithstanding media speculation - fuelling investor speculation and of course semi-psychic analysts - it is clear that [...]

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Research by YouGov for T-Mobile shows that the heads of  60% of UK SMEs spend up to a month out of the office on business each year.
When added to annual holiday entitlement this means key decision makers are in only limited contact with their firm for 2 months out of 12.
The survey of 540 companies found, not [...]

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Bank of England monitoring of the UK economy shows business investment is down as the availability of credit generally, causes concern for domestic demand.
Construction and service sectors have felt the slow down the most. Manufacturing output levels remained stable with exporters less affected; growth in exports had slowed.
Both input and output prices have risen significantly [...]

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The Employment Research Institute reports that SMEs are the place to be for employees if they want the best chance of being recognised and having input to the bigger decisions.
The key benefit of being employed by a smaller company is that of not having to tackle
layers of bureaucracy and self-concerned management to get thoughts heard and [...]

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