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Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance in Swansea has helped secure a management buy-out (MBO) at pharmaceutical research company Simbec Research.

Smaller companies are showing a worrying lack of capital investment, according to the Finance and Leasing Association’s (FLA’s) yearly survey of business finance.

The Enterprise Act 2003, due to come into force on 15 September, will introduce a number of positive changes that will make the rescue of an insolvent company more straightforward than in the past, says Malcolm Shierson, partner within Grant Thorn

Britain's trade deficit narrowed sharply in July as the recovering global economy boosted external demand for UK goods, economists said yesterday.

An exciting Ј10m project aimed at providing free advice to local firms is to be launched at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham, later this month.

The pressure on small businesses to meet the soaring costs of compulsory employers liability insurance came a step closer to being eased yesterday with the launch of a new initiative by the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

The John Reynolds Group Ltd, one of the UK’s oldest and leading independent specialist credit insurance brokers, has launched the Petroleum Distributors Intelligence Unit (PDIU)

In response to the release of the Government’s White Paper, A Constitutional Treaty for the EU, the Institute of Directors (IoD) repeated its call for a referendum on British adoption of the Treaty.

The UK economy is still growing at a slower rate than the government has predicted, according to an economic think tank.

The decline in the number of limited companies failing in the UK continued in August, according to the latest figures released by Experian®, the global business solutions company.