UK Business News

Government plans to create a super casino in Manchester have been dropped , it was announced by Culture secretary Andy Burnham in Parliament this week. Plans for sixteen smaller casinos have however been given the go ahead. Mr Burham said that there was ‘no consensus’ about building the super casino.
Sir Richard Leese leader of the [...]

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Anyone who has ever had a ‘flutter’, will be familiar with the saying, ‘You never see a poor bookmaker’.
In County Durham that might not be so true, as Bookmaker Neville Porter, a company that floated on the Alternative Investment Market 12 months ago, has been hit by a string of bad results.
The company has announced [...]

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Tate & Lyle are set to become the largest UK company bearing a Fairtrade logo on its products, with the announcement of their commitment to making all of their retail products, Fairtrade, by 2009.
The news comes as Tate & Lyle launch their one kilo bag of cane sugar, sourced from Fairtrade accredited farms in Belize. [...]

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The Women in Enterprise Connecting to Contracts Scheme (WE Connect) was unveiled in the House of Commons last week. The scheme aims to break down the barriers that women in business face in securing contracts with multi national companies.
Research shows that women business owners run 16% of UK companies but account for only 3-5% of  [...]

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Figures issued by Data Specialists Datanomic have revealed that almost 4,000 financial criminals, terrorists and disqualified directors are running UK businesses.
Datanomic screened the Companies House register of 6.8 million companies, directors and secretaries against World-Check’s database of ‘high risk’ individuals and organisations.
The study found that exact matches were recorded for 1,504 disqualified directors, many of [...]

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