Hitachi Business Barometer Survey The survey asked 1139 small businesses across the UK what their outlook was for the future. This is the last major survey to come out pre Brexit. The survey doesn’t look backwards, it looks at what the SME sector thinks of the next three months. The survey findings were compared to
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Starlight Foundation We are part of The NACFB. At our annual dinner this year there were the normal speakers, all very good. Then came Starlight Foundation who were our charity partner for this year’s event. I have no hesitation in saying that in 15 short minutes my level of admiration for this charity went through
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Inflation & It’s Impact On The Young Inflation is defined by Investopedia as; The rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services is rising, and, subsequently, purchasing power is falling. Central banks attempt to stop severe inflation, along with severe deflation, in an attempt to keep the excessive growth of prices
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Weird Loan Applications Loan applications are made for many different reasons, when it comes to business loans then the top reasons to borrow are; Equipment Expansion of business Property Cash Flow Starting a business All fairly normal stuff. However there are also some pretty weird reasons why loans are taken out. Let’s have a look
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The Worst Business Plans Ever Many years ago a client came to me with a proposal for designer clothing. Sounds OK so far. But this designer clothing range was for ferrets. That means ferrets walking around with diamonte collars, slogan t-shirts, even funky winter jackets. This may be the time to scoff, but out of
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Business Networking Everyone likes to promote their business, so what better way of doing that than joining a group of likeminded business people. The 4N meeting at Edenbridge has settled into the new venue, an improved breakfast with several different options is on offer and a few laughs are guaranteed. This week we even saw
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Manor Royal Know Your Neighbour Event Great to meet last week. We were delighted to exhibit at the 2014 Manor Royal ‘Know Your Neighbour Event’. The day was busy and it was great to exhibit alongside the best local small businesses and the larger stalwarts of the Crawley business community. For anyone who we didn’t
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Horizon 2020 This initiative is and EU backed scheme aimed at increasing innovation by providing unprecedented levels of funding to take ideas into the lab, then to the market. The scheme will run from January 2014 through to December 2020, in this seven year period there is a budget of E80bn. So do you want
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