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Committee To Examine Prompt Payment Code
Businesses and the public sector will lead a new advisory board designed to strengthen the Prompt Payment Code (PPC), the…
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Consumers Face Retirement Uncertainty
Consumers lack confidence in their long-term savings and investments, research by Which? has found. The consumer group surveyed more than…
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Recofloor wins MEN Environmental Business of the Year Award
Recofloor, the UK’s national vinyl flooring recycling scheme, has added another accolade to its award-winning sustainable achievements by winning the…
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Wise words at the Flooring Show from Designer Contracts
Designer Contracts, the UK’s largest flooring contractor offered its expert carpet recycling knowledge at a seminar held at this year’s…
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SMEs Warned About Cyber Threats
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) should do more to protect themselves against online fraud and IT security risks, a panel…
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Short Service Pension Refunds To Be Abolished
People who change jobs regularly will no longer have to cash in or move their workplace pension, under new government…
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Small Firms Want Auto-Enrolment Delay
More than 9 out of 10 employers who have not yet started automatically enrolling employees into a workplace pension would…
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Pension Charge Cap Confirmed
Pension charges will be capped at 0.75% per year from April 2015, the Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed.…
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Small Firms Want Auto-Enrolment Delay
More than 9 out of 10 employers who have not yet started automatically enrolling employees into a workplace pension would…
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SME Owners Not Identifying As Entrepreneurs
Small business owners are unlikely to consider themselves entrepreneurs, research by AXA has found. Less than half of individuals questioned…
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Savings Fall Between Spring And Summer
The amount people saved each month fell between spring and summer 2014, both as a percentage of monthly income and…
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Funding For SME Business Advice
Small businesses will be able to get funding for advice from business schools under a project run by the Small…
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Switch Guarantee Popular With Consumers
There has been a 22% increase on the number of bank account switches since the Current Account Switch Service was…
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Unemployment Rate Falls To 6%
The number of unemployed people fell by 154,000 to 1.97 million between June and August 2014, according to official figures.…
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GoodWeave Founder Wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2014 peace prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, two individuals who have…
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UK-Portsmouth: Building alteration work
Official EU reference: 343759-2014 Procurer reference: HaPS/419576/AMS300/W/14/T Published on: 10/10/2014 Deadline date:07/11/2014 Location where the contract is to be carried…
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Bill Introduces April 2015 Pension Reforms
Draft legislation that sets out the pension reforms announced at the 2014 Budget has now been published. The Taxation of…
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Couples Struggle With Financial Planning
Couples discuss their future finances but fail to turn their conversations into action, research by Prudential has found. The survey…
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Female representation increases on boards
Female representation on FTSE 100-listed companies has continued to increase, government figures have shown. Women now account for 22.8% of…
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Faster wage growth for private sector
Private sector wages are likely to rise faster than those in the public sector during the next 5 years, a…
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Savers face retirement shortfall
People saving for retirement are facing an average financial shortfall of almost £100 per week in retirement, a study by…
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Shop prises fall 1.8% in September
Shop prices fell by 1.8% in the year to September 2014, according to figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC)…
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Pergo performs at Sleep
With stunning laminate, wood and vinyl flooring bringing striking style to the hospitality sector, Pergo will be coming to Sleep…
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Academy for excellence in flooring powers up the Flooring Show
The Academy for Excellence in Flooring powered up the Flooring Show as it revealed its new identity and courses tuned…
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Itec and Moduleo get their thing on at Sleep 2014
Visitors to this year’s Sleep exhibition will be able to see how resilient sheet flooring from Itec Contract Floors and…
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