Undiscovered Business Entrepreneurs
Every day in rush hour London, be-suited businessmen disembark from the morning train and ride off to their work destinations on odd looking fold up bicycles.
While the average person may not have considered it, a folding bicycle is an impressive feat of engineering. It needs to be easily collapsible yet maintain alignment to [...]

UK Business News
Entries from October 2009
UK Business: The Brompton bicycle
John Williams - Thursday 29.10.09, 02:10am
Tags: Manufacturing · Transport · UK Economy
UK Business: New Ethical Business Awards
John Williams - Wednesday 28.10.09, 11:51am
Pledging For Change Ethical Business Advantage Award 2009
If you own an Ethical Business or know someone who does, this new competition offers the chance to win £5,000 worth of business image development from the brand image experts at Creatively Minded Design.
Pledging For Change is an ethical community interest company promoting networking in the spirit of [...]
Tags: Business News · Competition · Environment · Small Businesses · UK Economy
UK Business: Pawnbrokers cash in on Gold as Brit’s sell off their valuables
John Williams - Monday 26.10.09, 12:25pm
The UK’s biggest pawnbroker, H&T which has over 120 branches across the country has said the business is trading well ahead of expectations as cash strapped Britons continue to trade in their valuables for cash.
H&T have opened 56 new outlets in shopping centres across the UK over the last year, recognising the growing recession fuelled [...]
Tags: Cash Flow · Personal Finance · UK Economy
Gunfleet wind farm puts UK on target for 10% renewable energy resources by end of 2010
John Williams - Tuesday 20.10.09, 14:12pm
With the newly opened 30 turbine wind farm at Gunfleet off the Essex coast going into production this week the UK will be producing enough wind powered energy to serve all of London south of the Thames it has been claimed.
The UK will be producing four gigawatts of energy from wind powered turbines, putting Britain [...]
Tags: Environment · Technology
UK Business: Clinton Cards to launch personalised cards online
John Williams - Friday 16.10.09, 18:44pm
“In 10 years’ time we’ll still be on the High Street, but we’ll be big online too.” – Clinton Lewin
High street greeting card retailer Clinton Cards has announced pre tax profits for the year of £24.1million, up from £22million a year ago. Chief executive Clinton Lewin also revealed plans to launch an online card service [...]








