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Natwest everywoman awards open for entry
News | 01 May 2013The UKs longest running programme for championing female enterprise the NatWest everywoman Awards is welcoming entries for 2013 These awards in their eleventh year differentiate themselves by recognising business success at every stage of maturity from embryonic start ups demonstrating promise to established enterprises that are making a significant contribution...More > -
Games volunteers invited back to Olympic Park
News | 01 May 2013Volunteers who worked at the London 2012 Games and their friends will be invited to a special event at the Olympic Park a year after the Games Ticket prices for the July 19th event in the north of the Olympic Park in Stratford east London have yet to be announced...More > -
ASOS on track for £1 billion sales
News | 01 May 2013ASOS reported a double digit hike in profits this week as the online fashion retailer said it remains optimistic about reaching a 1 billion sales target UK customers splashed out 30 million more on fashion in the six months to the end of February than they did the year before...More > -
Whitbread to create 12,000 jobs
News | 30 April 2013Whitbread is to create 12 000 new jobs as it steps up the expansion of its Premier Inn and Costa chains over the next five years The announcement from the leisure and hospitality group which also owns Beefeater and Brewers Fayre restaurants came as it reported an 11 rise in...More > -
Hospitality firms: VAT cut "would create jobs"
News | 30 April 2013Pizza Hut Wetherspoon Punch Taverns Prezzo Subway and TGI Fridays have all given their voices to calls for VAT to be cut by 5 in a new report Hundeds of thousands of new jobs could be created according to the survey by the Jacques Borel VAT Club which represents 43...More > -
Mary Portas slams Sir Terry Leahy’s defence of supermarkets
News | 30 April 2013TV presenter and retail tsar Mary Portas has criticised Sir Terry Leahys defence of supermarket dominance in retail as absolutely crap Sir Terry Leahy described the rise of supermarkets and the closure of small shops across the country as part of progress in an interview with Radio 4s Desert Island...More > -
Primark to pay compensation to families of Bangladesh victims
News | 30 April 2013High street giant Primark has said it will pay compensation to the families of their workers involved in the Bangladesh building collapse that took the lives of 400 people The budget clothing chain occupied the second floor of the eight storey building and some of the workers injured and killed...More > -
Waitrose and Eurostar in new partnership
News | 29 April 2013Waitrose is making its first major foray into on board catering with a deal to supply Eurostars buffet carriages The supermarket chain will start supplying the cross Channel rail service with sandwiches ready meals salads and drinks from Tuesday also marking its first big move into northern Europe The employee...More > -
Greggs warns on profits as cold weather hits sales
News | 29 April 2013Greggs is counting the cost of a bitter winter and early spring today as it warned that annual profits will come in short of City hopes The Newcastle based company which has 1 681 outlets said the adverse weather in January and March was a big factor in a 4...More > -
Beer sales down on last year
News | 29 April 2013Beer sales in pubs have continued to fall and were down by almost 50 million pints in the first quarter of the year compared with 12 months ago new figures have shown Beer trade was down by 5 5 in pubs compared with a 0 1 increase in supermarkets and...More >
