One product that gives a ray of light in these gloomy times (forgive the pun) is energy-saving light bulbs. In the last three months of 2008, 12.3 million of them were sold in the UK, up from 8.9 million in...

The wide range of opinion regarding both the severity and likely timescale of this recession was illustrated yesterday with comments from the BoE, BCC and IOD. Take your pick who you run with..... BoE Governor, Mervyn King says “The slowdown...

Whilst the Bank of England and the Government continue to make predictions regarding the severity and likely length of this recession, many business owners have stopped listening. It took the BoE & Govt a while to acknowledge a “credit crunch”...

A member survey at the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) has shown that recent VAT cuts, bank lending guarantees and pledges on payment practices have had little to no effect on trading. The Government-backed Prompt Payment Code, launched last year,...

The decision to raise car prices, by both Ford and Vauxhall, at a time when sales of new vehicles is around 30% down, year on year, seems, on the face of it, absolute madness. Both companies blame plumetting sterling and...