Entrepreneurship now top pick for those entering the workforce
Research compiled by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) has revealed that starting your own business is seen as the most desirable career path for today’s youth.
Hitting the right note when it comes to retail music selection
It's pumped into the background whether we're doing some spring time browsing or frantic Christmas shopping, but music in retail establishments has been proven to have a big impact on cash going into tills.
Make time to rest and recuperate as a business owner
As Christmas approaches and brings to an end a very busy month and year, make a point of switching of mentally, digitally and physically.
How to make sure your business doesn’t lose sight of how to comply with HMRC
For businesses, Christmas is always a hectic time of year. In the midst of ongoing festivities, and working towards the end-of-year targets, maintaining VAT and expense compliance may well be the last thing on your mind. However, as we draw to the end of 2014, businesses must not lose sight of this matter.
American Apparel’s Dov Charney fired for sexual misconduct and replaced by female
Dov Charney, who was suspended as president and CEO on 18 June for alleged sexual misconduct, has been officially terminated from American Apparel's board “for cause in accordance with terms of his employment agreement".
How the Internet of Things will impact a number of industries
Imagine a world where billions of objects have sensors to detect, measure, and assess their status, all connected over or through the Internet. This enables important information is pushed out to machines, to individuals, and to organisations of every type, anywhere in the world, allowing decisions to be made, quickly and effectively as a result of the insight that data provides. This is called the Internet of Everyone (IoE) and is defined as a network of people, processes, data and things.
Real Business Christmas Countdown: The Best of 2014: 17 December
If you need a little pick up to combat those mid-week blues, have a look at our latest best bits of 2014 article including Phones 4U going under and the brands you didn't know were British-owned.
“Early 2015” is a “realistic target date” for a unitary patent framework
In a document published by the Presidency of the EU's Council of Ministers in November 2013, “it was decided that early 2015 would constitute an ambitious but realistic target date” for a unitary patent framework to be set up.
Queen Elizabeth as a brand and business ahead of becoming Britain’s longest-reigning monarch
Queen Elizabeth will become the UK's longest-reigning monarch on 9 September. So, with the amount of appeal the previous royal celebrations have had on the country and the world, Real Business has looked at the British ruler as a brand, and just what fellow UK businesses should expect from the big milestone.