Enterprise UK Blog

What better way to start your week than with a retrospective whizz through the weekend’s papers. All he juicy enterprise morsels we could find are below:

Sky News
‘Little Big Shots: Superjam’

Sky News has a chat with Enterprise UK ambassador Fraser Doherty. Fraser began making jam at the age of 14 and later began making jam at home, selling it to neighbours, at farmers’ markets and to local shops.

http://bit.ly/cPP8Wq

 
The Observer

‘Retail’s last resort’

According to a study for the British Property Federation’s retail summit, the worst place in Britain for empty shops is Wolverhampton in the West Midlands with a vacancy rate of 23.9 per cent. The best? Enterprising Britain winner Scarborough, with just 2.4 per cent of its shops standing empty.

Not online – in the Business supplement, p. 3
 

Financial Times (13.02.10)

‘Good me a good plumber – now’ (Mike Southon)

The FT reports that many small business now run ‘virtually’, with no fixed infrastructure or full-time employees. Within this new model, “most people in these organisations are self-employed, and the peaks and troughs of the business are managed by drawing on a flexible pool of talent.”

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe8a11b2-1800-11df-91d2-00144feab49a.html
 

Financial Times (13.02.10)

‘Disruption doesn’t have to bring discord’ (Jonathan Moules)

Feature on business challenges looking at how upstart businesses can unsettle and established market and provoke hostile backlashes.

http://money.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=1011902
 

The Times (15.02.10)

‘Study reinforces fears of a “jobless” discovery’

The Times reports fears of another rise in the rate of redundancies. Although latest official data showed a surprise fall in the jobless total in the three months to November, the CIPD has warned

p. 42
Mail on Sunday (13.02.10)

‘Our Apprentice hunt down to the last four’ (Helen Loveless)

The finalists in Financial Mail’s MoneySense Apprentice Challenge for young entrepreneurs – which was open to girls’ schools across Britain – have been announced.

http://www.fmwf.com/media-type/news/2010/02/our-apprentice-hunt-down-to-the-last-four/
The Sunday Times: Business (14.02.10)

‘We need to halt the meddling’ (Rachel Bridge)

Mark Prisk, shadow Business Minister, reveals his plans for small firms if the Tories get into power. Proposals discussed include axing regional Business Links, and increasing the number and role of local enterprise agencies.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/entrepreneur/sme/article7026236.ece

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