Christmas shoppers will spend as much this festive season as last year despite the UK remaining in recession, Deloitte has predicted. However, the accountancy firm said that the impact of job losses and higher taxes would mean spending is likely to be squeezed at Christmas next year. People were cutting back on daily indulgences such [...]
Arsenal director Stan Kroenke has moved to the brink of the threshold where he would have to make an offer for the entire stockholding of the club. The US billionaire has bought another 200 shares in Arsenal’s holding company, at £8,500 each, taking his shareholding to 29.9%. Mr Kroenke bought 100 of the shares from [...]
New car sales recorded their biggest increase so far this year in October, helped by the scrappage scheme. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said 168,942 new cars were registered last month, an increase of 31.6% compared with October 2008. The SMMT said the “cash for bangers” incentive scheme had accounted for more [...]
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Swiss banking giant UBS £8m for failing to stop its employees making unauthorised transactions. The FSA said four UBS employees had carried out the transactions using customer money on at least 39 accounts. The unauthorised activities took place between January 2006 and December 2007. The FSA also said [...]
The Bank of England’s rate-setters have decided to pump an extra £25bn into the economy in their quantitative easing (QE) programme. They also kept interest rates unchanged at 0.5% for an eighth month. The Bank has already spent £175bn on QE, which involves printing money to buy assets from banks and other companies to stimulate [...]
Katie Price or Jordan, whatever you want to call her, there is no question that where she gos, the tabloids and drama seems to follow. She is one of those people that the nation seems divided about, particularly since her recent messy split with Peter Andre. When she and Peter were together she appeared to [...]
One of the key things needed to have a successful business is a successful marketing campaign, but what is the best way to do this? There are so many issues to contend with and you have to get it right as the wrong marketing strategy can destroy a product before it’s even had time to [...]
Once you’ve decided on a business plan; what your product is going to be and which market you are going to target, the next thing to do before taking the product to the marketplace is to decide on a retail price which will enable you to make a profit. Now not having had much experience [...]
Following on from my last blog, I now had to try and match my product to the right market hopefully finding a niche for me to showcase my cakes. The baking I do is not fancy or frilly it’s just homemade classics done well, gooey chocolate brownies, victoria sponge cakes, flapjacks etc so where is [...]
After a few afternoons of baking I realised that I actually had quite a passion for it and after getting my friends and family to taste and test my efforts it became clear that I wasn’t half bad at it either, everyone was definitely giving my baking the thumbs up, one of friends actually suggested [...]
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