Baby skin care business Miamo has gone from strength to strength even as recession has hit and owner Saira Khan is in talks to branch out across Europe

The Bank of England has been accused of reneging on a promise to use some of its £175bn stimulus package to help small businesses by failing to free up leasing firms to lend more

Finding and appointing a permanent non-executive director is time-consuming and costly, but there is an alternative for growing firms

The boss of Punch Taverns says pubs could do better. Publicans say he is greedy. Is this the end of the beer tie?

An entrepreneur who rejected a £200,000 Dragons Den offer for a stake in his company, has sold more than 5m Illoom Balloons in less than a year

Union leaders have reacted angrily after the Government signalled it would to delay bringing in new rights for workers.

Hundreds of small companies could be unfairly hit by the Government’s carbon emissions rules, industry leaders are warning

Royal Bank of Scotland has set up a hotline for businesses trying to get loans as it comes under fire for failing to meet government lending targets

More than a third of small British firms have been hit by identity fraudsters, with the UK suffering the highest rate of ID fraud in Europe

Political parties are trying to outdo each other with threats to cut or freeze public sector pay, but it’s no longer seen as electoral suicide