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| 06/10/2000 |
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The country's economy may be booming but a report out yesterday shows
that setting up a new small business in France is still just as risky as it
ever was.
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| 04/10/2000 |
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Europeans' heads are getting bigger, according to new research by
small and medium sized businesses.
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| 03/10/2000 |
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David Irwin, chief executive officer of the UK government's Small
Business Service, set out his vision for Britain's small and medium-sized companies in a major speech this week, stressing the need for risk-taking. This is an edited version of what he had to say:
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| 02/10/2000 |
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It's not only backpackers who are benefiting from the proliferation of low-cost airlines across Europe. Bruce Barnard reports on the best deals currently available, and advises on how to sidestep some of the pitfalls of bargain-bucket travel.
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| 28/09/2000 |
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As the internet access rate among small UK firms climbs higher and
higher, Business Europe explores why most SMEs are still waiting for the
much-heralded e-commerce jackpot.
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| 26/09/2000 |
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A Scottish shopkeeper is showing how commitment can enable small
enterprises to take on the retail giants, reports Nancy
Nicolson of The Scotsman
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| 22/09/2000 |
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Truckers in the European Union may have won some concessions during
the recent spate of fuel tax protests, but, as Bruce Barnard reports, the price
of diesel may soon turn out to be the least of their worries.
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| 21/09/2000 |
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If French Finance Minster Laurent Fabius thought the adoption of his
'business friendly' budget by cabinet colleagues yesterday would put an end to
country-wide gripes about high taxes he was sadly mistaken.
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| 20/09/2000 |
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The shortage of properly qualified workers is hitting small companies
across Britain - and in a growing number of sectors as Catherine
Wheatley of Sunday Business reports
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| 18/09/2000 |
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Petrol and diesel sales may have been disrupted across Europe but the protests and blockades were lifted just in time to prevent interruption to retail markets in electricity and gas.
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| 15/09/2000 |
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The protestors have gone home, and the tankers are rolling once again, leaving businesses to count the cost of the crisis. The 6-day protest over fuel taxes has landed small businesses with a bill of up to 1 billion pounds and counting, according to analysts.
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| 14/09/2000 |
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As the pickets head home from two key oil refineries in Scotland and
north-west England, BusinessEurope looks at what the government could do in its
November draft budget to buy off a second round.
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| 02/04/2000 |
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The recent US decision not to implement the Kyoto Protocol has cast a
shadow of doubt over global commitments to go green. To mark the entry into
force today of the UK climate change levy, a controversial tax on energy use,
Business Europe investigates how small firms can do their bit for the
environment.
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| 19/01/2000 |
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Just weeks ago when the opposition Conservative Party announced its
latest tax plans, nobody listened. Since last week's petrol crisis and a slump
in the Labour government's popularity, business attention has shifted back to
Tory leader William Hague.
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| 01/01/2000 |
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Most UK employers are in the dark about government plans to make i
compulsory for some companies to offer basic pensions to their employees, jus
6 weeks before the first such pensions become available.
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| 01/01/2000 |
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Firms hoping to land some of the 500 billion euros spent on EU public
service contracts every year could do a lot worse than invest in a computer and
modem.
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| 01/01/2000 |
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Small businesses in the eurozone will be cascaded within 15 months by
56 billion new coins and 13 billion banknotes yet most admit they are entirely
unprepared. Need they be? Tim Jones reports.
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| 01/01/2000 |
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Low-cost, no-frills airlines may finally be eating into the
long-captive market for European small-business travellers but swathes of the
corporate continent remain untouched by competition for the
flag-carriers.
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| 01/01/2000 |
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Operations managers in south-east England with plans to expand will
have their eyes on Workspace, the leading supplier of space to English small
businesses with 6 million square feet under management to 3,000 tenants.
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| 01/01/2000 |
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Nokia Chairman Jorma Ollila describes how the growth of the Internet
will create a new world of business.
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| 01/01/2000 |
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With just three days to go before the first 'stakeholder pensions'
become available, many small businesses are still unaware that they may be
legally obliged to arrange one on behalf of their staff.
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| 01/01/2000 |
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British public opinion has decided that French SMEs are 'over here'
to avoid being over-taxed. The truth of the 'exode' to Kent is more compex than
that as Myles Neligan reports.
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| 01/01/2000 |
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John Temple Lang's resignation as the EU's competition policy 'fair
play' officer may be the first piece of good news Microsoft Corporation has
heard from Brussels for many a year.
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| 01/01/2000 |
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Despite the inroads made by cheap airlines, large parts of Europe
remain the protected domain of national flag carriers - to the cost of business
travelers, as Tim Jones reports from Brussels
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| 01/01/2000 |
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Two of small businesses' three greatest concerns are taxation and what they believe to be government over-regulation.
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