73% Of SMEs Are Wasting Money Without Effective Management Software
A recent survey by Applied Business, providers of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, discovered that 73% of SMEs who aren’t using any form of …
UK Businesses Are Contributing To The Growing Landfill Problem
An overwhelming number of British companies are failing to recycle efficiently, according to new research. The survey of 1,055 British workers carried out by …

Strada Isn’t Broke! It Is Now
There’s an old adage: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” So, we ask ourselves why has Strada started tinkering with its set menu. …
I Want To Pay Amazon Tax
Reading the piece in The Sunday Times about Amazon paying 0.1% tax on business of £4.2 billion made me wonder if I could do …
Bank Holidays
I don’t get bank holidays. The world has moved on. We’re all working on flexible contracts so why do we have them? Anyone have …
Cashflow Concerns
I talk to business people at least a couple of times a day and, inevitably, the conversation pretty much always ends up at cashflow. …
Business Is Business…
There’s been a lot in the news this week about supermarkets ‘faking’ special deals by hyper-inflating prices of products several days before they are …
High Street killers! Greedy landlords?
Are greedy landlords really to blame? Hard to defend, but landlords are in business too. However, not all are complete blood-sucking vampires. There’s a …
NPower – Life’s a gas!
After our recent tap on the shoulder of NPower for appalling customer service, what do they do? That’s right, increase their prices by over …
NPower underpowered
I had cause to call NPower today and was greeted by the message that there was, and I quote, “A greater than 45 minute …