Scots growth at near four-year high
Scotland’s economy is growing at the fastest rate seen in almost four years.
Scotland’s economy is growing at the fastest rate seen in almost four years.
A new European directive does not require small businesses to send and receive invoices by email, despite fears that firms would be forced online by the new laws, according to a business software company.
Optimism and performance of UK companies has improved over the past three months, according to a survey released today by the Institute of Directors (IoD).
Scottish businesses are urged to attend a free seminar on Tuesday 10 February giving guidance on their new role in the fight against money laundering.
Northern Ireland's private sector economy expanded for the tenth successive month in January, according to the Ulster Bank PMI survey produced by NTC Research.
Statistics showing insolvencies in the fourth quarter 2003 are published today by the Department of Trade and Industry. (DTI)
A small County Durham-based specialist engineering company has won Ј6.7million of business to supply copper tube manufacturing equipment to Mexico with the backing of the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD).
The Bank of England raised its main interest rate today for the second time in three months.
The quarter-point rise to 4 per cent was widely expected after recent official and survey data showed the economy was gathering momentum.
Following the warning from the Forum of Private Business (FPB that new small-firm audit regulations could put directors' homes at risk, Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo has offered a more optimistic assessment.
Versailles, the trade finance company which collapsed in 2000 owing Ј70m to its banks, made no money whatsoever from the time it was founded nine years earlier, a court heard yesterday.