The failure rate of start ups acts as a filtering process, ensuring only those with the right experience, skills and passion survive. That's accor...

Helen Keenan is the founder of toddlers and children's clothing range Little Punk London. A driven and tenacious woman, Keenan uses the lessons she le...

Fears of a triple-dip recession have been raised again after new figures showed marked changes in shopping habits. A report from the Office for Nat...

Rachel Ray spent years as a trained accountant before deciding to abandon the city and start up a housekeeping service called Bright and Beautiful. ...

Women are generating more wealth than ever before, but when it comes to passing it forward and investing in the next generation, it seems sisters are ...

William Hewland took over the running of Hewland Engineering, the company which invented the first commercially available racing car gearbox, in 1989....

Business secretary Vince Cable is once again calling for greater access to credit for small businesses following signs that the Funding for Lending Sc...

Downloading counterfeit software is rampant among small businesses as they try to save money - but is the practice costing them more than they might t...

Steve Locke, together with co-founders Leigh Miller and Rhys Oldfield, is the entrepreneur behind cocktail bar chain Be At One. Here, he tells us ...

Amber Atherton is the founder of online jewellery business MyFlashTrash. As well as modelling, readers may also recognise Amber from her stint on rea...

Telecoms giant BT is planning to diversify into the legal services market for business clients following its claims management arm's application to be...

Dragon's Den star Theo Paphitis has bucked the retail trend by posting strong figures for all three of his retail ventures. General store Robert Dy...

New research from business community group Ingenious Britain, in conjunction with business experts MakeItCheaper.com, has found UK small and medium en...

Comfortably the youngest entrepreneur to be interviewed by the Huffington Post UK, Colchester's Andrew Dewar made his social network debut with new bu...

Jersey-based entertainment retailer Play.com is to stop selling items direct to customers. The closure of its retail operation is being blamed on t...

Google has interviewed 3,500 small business employees across the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands, found that over three quarters...

London used to be heaving with distilleries, but Jamie Baxter has opened the city of London's first one for 200 years. Here, he tells us why gin is...

The government has announced it will extend its Start Up Loan initiative, and expand the age range to 18-30 years old, but do entrepreneurs think the ...

Rachel Wardley set up her flower work shop in Bath after being inspired by attending a workshop herself. Despite never having been her own boss before...

Nicko Williamson is the founder of Climatecars – an eco-friendly taxi service operating in the Greater London area. Founding the company at just ...

Communities secretary of state Eric Pickles and local growth minister Mark Prisk have launched a new pop-up store in Whitehall to help promote UK entr...

The media has been full of reports in recent months predicting that 2012 will be the first year where online shopping outstrips the money being spent ...

Small and medium sized enterprises did relatively well out of George Osborne's Autumn Statement, with investment incentives, corporation tax cuts and ...

Charlie Bigham is the name behind the home-made convenience food you may have seen in some supermarkets. Here, he tells us why he left behind a career...

At a time when more of us are considering starting our own business, wouldn't it be good to have access to a banking expert to set you off on the righ...