The energy market is failing Britain’s small businesses, as a new study reveals businesses are even scaling back staffing costs to compensate for rising energy bills.

The data also revealed SMEs are more concerned about the rising cost of energy and its impact on their business - than they are about the potential fall-out of Brexit.

More than three quarters (77%) of 1,000 small businesses survey...

Not Actively Looking (NAL) - a career management platform for senior executives, has announced the results of its survey “Is Social media more important to senior executives than it was three years ago?”

The online survey of 450 senior executives was conducted by NAL and looked at their usage patterns of social media. While 84% use social media today more than they did three years ago and clos...

Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ("Mercer Advisors"), a national Registered Investment Adviser (RIA), has acquired AL Hewitt Inc., a respected comprehensive wealth management firm in Camarillo, California serving approximately 120 clients with assets under management (AUM) of $100MM. Hewitt also operates a tax return preparation business preparing over 4,000 tax returns annually, with all fin...

Bloc Hotels has completed the purchase of 21, West George Street, Glasgow. The former cash counting and storage facility, known as Dale House, will be developed into a landmark hotel in the heart of the city.

The prime location is directly opposite Queen Street Station – currently benefiting from a £120 million redevelopment. The site has full planning consent to replace the existing 1980s b...

Big Data LDN report shows new Government needs to make ‘giant leap’ to regain confidence of UK data leaders

Thursday 7th November - London, England - Europe’s largest event for data, Big Data LDN (London), today revealed findings from its UK Fourth Industrial Revolution 2019 Report. The independent research, commissioned by Big Data LDN and sponsored by Cloudera, surveyed 500 of the UK’s most inf...

A study by global asset manager American Century Investments showed that the more advisors use social media, the more value they receive from it. However, a surprising number of advisors don't use social media on a consistent basis, and many view it as not having a large effect on their business, either now or in the future.

For the eighth time, American Century surveyed 301 financial advisor...

Europe’s largest event for data, Big Data LDN (London), returns to Olympia London on November 13th and 14th for a fourth year. The event has surpassed all expectations since launching in 2016 with 130 exhibitors set to attend this year. Delegate numbers have also increased from 3,100 in 2016 to 6,800 in 2018, with over 8,000 expected in 2019.

This year’s event, supported by the government’s newl...

The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) has urged recruiters to leverage their expertise to help close the disability employment gap following insight which revealed that this has decreased by just 7% over the last 20 years.

In its analysis of recruitment trends from the last two decades, APSCo, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, found that engaging disabled w...

Sales on credit are on the up despite the prevailing economic challenges as UK businesses strive to appear more attractive to potential customers, reveals the latest economic report by trade credit insurer Atradius.

The Western Europe Payment Practices Barometer research report by Atradius found offering credit was being used by UK firms as a tool to increase and retain sales and to provide cust...