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Small businesses combating unemployment
Thursday 28 January 2010Here are some stats for you. If you poll the employees of small firms (1-10), you will find 5.8% of them were unemployed 12 months ago. In large businesses (250+) it was 2.2%. If you look at the percentage of disabled people, it was 7.7% compared with 6.9%.Females 48.2% compared with ...[more] -
Christmas is coming…..far too fast!
Thursday 17 December 2009Christmas may only be a week away but there is still a lot going on at NFEA. You will have seen the announcement that Prowess are re-locating their operations to us here in Bedford. This is a positive development, sending out a message about co-operation, cost efficiencies, shared resources etc, ...[more] -
NES Entrepreneur of the Year announced
Monday 29 June 2009Norman Straight, owner of Straight Clean window cleaning in Norwich, was named NES Entrepreneur of the Year at a dedicated award ceremony in Birmingham last week. Norman founded Straight Clean in January 2008 as a means to move away from being unemployed, to a job with the flexibility to also allow ...[more] -
How quickly times change
Monday 19 January 2009In the autumn, a press release arrived from MoreTh>n Business, the direct insurer which is part of the Royal and Sun Alliance Group. They had worked with Warwick Business School to calculate an inflation rate for small businesses. The Business Inflation Guide showed that in the second quarter of 2008, ...[more] -
A gaggle of geese, a school of dolphins……a list of entrepreneurs?
Tuesday 6 January 2009I can't find a collective term for entrepreneurs, so I'm proposing that when more than three of them are together, we call them a list, a list of entrepreneurs. Why? Many of you will remember Rachel Bridge, small business editor of the Sunday Times, from when she came to speak to ...[more]