Worsening unemployment, reduced availability of credit and our static housing market all combine to keep the economic environment subdued. Certainly, during this period, UK retailing has had to
cope with lots of difficulties.
However, perhaps the recession’s most insidious impact lies in its brutal assault on trust and confidence. Indeed, where occasional fragments of good news do emerge, our misgivings often remain.
Yet, against international comparisons, British retailing is one of our most advanced, innovative and resilient sectors. Our 2.8 million employees comprise 11% of the total UK workforce, delivering sales in …

As a consultant, I’ve deliberately avoided making too big a deal about this recession we find ourselves in because.
First it doesn’t help a great deal to dwell upon problems when really you ought to be thinking about solutions; and secondly, you’re probably hearing plenty about it from everyone else.
I’ve been getting a lot of emails and calls from business owners who are having an extremely bad time of things at the moment. Everyone, it seems, is asking the same question: “can you help me survive the recession?”
Hmm. Well, first thing …

The new entrepreneur may soon feel like they are in over their head trying to keep up with all the aspects of running a successful business. For many individuals who came from a corporate work background, it can be shocking to suddenly have complete responsibility for every part of operating a company. In particular, many former executives new to owning a business may have been used to delegating many of the more tedious tasks to underlings. The pressure to have to take care of everything on your own may be …

We’ve all see the adverts for the as seen on TV products, which turn make a whole show out of describing the benefits of whatever it is they are trying to sell, and how it’s amazing that anyone has managed to get this far without owning one of these. In actual fact, they are some of the best selling products on that market, because their marketing strategies are so effective. Now imagine if you could get in on the profits by buying infomercial products wholesale?
Well, the good news is that …

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To conceptualise a model or an idea requires lots of imagination, to put the concept or …