Small Business Entrepreneur Blog

In an age when most manufactured goods are imported, and with UK manufacturers struggling as the housing market wains, SkirtingBoards.com is adopting a homegrown approach to business, manufacturing all goods locally and employing staff in need of a second chance.

SkirtingBoards.com’s first employee was a Bankrupt father who was struggling to find work, less than 6 months later he was …

Still related to the JFC Rural Innovation awards , the Clare Farm Idea Awards competition is organised by Clare Local Development Company to promote entrepreneurship amongst farming and fishing communities. Applications were received from around the county and each of the applicants presented their ideas to the judging panel on 25th November. The panel comprised of Peter Young from the …

I wish the awards were also available to my home country – I have a joke with my colleagues that once I’m done with the IT thing I should buy a cattle farm and produce milk, just to see something “real” coming out of my hands. Starting a new business is never easy, but the success stories of the JFC …

The Global Business Opportunities program (GBO) was announced in the UK for February 2011. Just as the Global Youth Forum (GYF) aimed to provide young people with the opportunity to discover and develop their skills in launching and managing their own business projects, the GBO – UK will give 30 future entrepreneurs from the UAE, UK and Jordan an intensive …

Five bumper years of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Central and Eastern Europe took a hammering last year as the effects of the credit crunch and recession bit, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers economists.

The evidence suggests that FDI in the region is likely to recover only modestly from 2010 onwards, says the report entitled Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern …