By: Jennifer Sieg

SME Correspondent Jennifer Sieg is an SME correspondent and editor of Ambition A.M., City A.M.'s weekly newsletter for all things entrepreneurship. She is also the host of Founder Favourites podcast, interviewing some of the UK's most interesting and up-and-coming founders. Email: jennifer.sieg@cityam.com

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Make or break: Struggling small firms hope holiday season will bring vital boost

November 13, 2023

As small businesses power through the economic headwinds of the year and look towards a more positive 2024, the holiday season might just be what makes or breaks it for some. Laura Timm, the Federation of Small Businesses London policy chair, referred to the next few months as the “golden quarter” for small businesses looking [...]
In pictures: The 695th Lord Mayor of the City of London unveiled

November 11, 2023

The City gathered together today for one of London’s longest-standing and most colourful traditions, the Lord Mayor Show. The three-mile procession began at 11:03 am, following the national two-minute silence for Armistice Day, near the Royal Exchange in Bank. The procession will end later this afternoon as the parade leads the Lord Mayor back to [...]
Debt charity calls for better support ahead of Autumn statement

November 8, 2023

Debt charity Stepchange has called on the government to boost support for vulnerable households ahead of the Autumn statement as the cost of living crisis continues to crimp people's budgets.
UK ditches company working time rules in further post-Brexit red tape cuts

November 8, 2023

The government is tackling out-of-date UK regulations by amending several post-Brexit retained EU laws — ensuring those like working time rules are “fit for purpose” to further jobs growth. A reduction of time-consuming reporting requirements and simplified calculations for annual leave and holiday pay under the Working Time Regulations are part of the reforms, as [...]
Renting a Wework office? Here’s what happens next

November 7, 2023

If Wework did go under in the UK, it wouldn't be all doom and gloom for the wider market, experts say
An easy pill to swallow: Meet the entrepreneur making pill boxes cool

November 7, 2023

Lucy Rout needed something stylish to keep her medication to hand. She couldn’t find it, she tells Jennifer Sieg – so she launched Tabuu herself. Lucy Rout had one mission when on her route to entrepreneurship: to open up conversation around medication. After being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of 25, Rout realised [...]
Mortgage rates are dropping — could they ‘continue to edge downwards’?

November 6, 2023

A managing partner at Knight Frank Finance said the below five per cent mortgage rates would help improve property market sentiment
Wework is one of London’s biggest tenants — what could a potential collapse mean?

November 3, 2023

Wework has recently found itself in hot water, with US reports suggesting that the company could file for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy as soon as next week.
Business outlook optimism ‘lowest’ this year as employment levels continue on downward trend

November 3, 2023

Business activity is subsiding for the third month in a row amid economic headwinds.
Wickes returns to ‘volume growth’ and ‘on track’ trading expectations after two year hiatus

November 3, 2023

The home improvement retailer reports volume growth for the first time since 2021.

Reform UK tax cut pledge raises doubts

The season finale economy: Why we undervalue the Premier League

Jinkx Monsoon’s Judy Garland musical proves drag is serious art

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