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Getting the Value from High Value Insurance

Standard home insurance policies offer great value for money - or so it seems - but for high net worth homes or for individuals with other high value items they can be full of pitfalls which could cost thousands. While the idea of dealing with specialist... Read >

Online Groceries and the Death of the High Street

Despite the much proclaimed death of the High Street, the major supermarkets haven't, as yet, cornered the market completely when it comes to our fruit and veg shopping. Not only do plenty of retailers continue to offer smaller independent services, some... Read >

Online Groceries – Who Benefits

Online shopping is slowly taking over as the preferred method for many people and, as companies develop their systems and services, the growth is likely to continue. Shopping online for groceries has been one area of rapid growth, although for some consu... Read >

Female Entrepreneurs Have Eye on Growth

Female entrepreneurs could give a much needed boost to the UK economy, a survey for Intuit, makers of QuickBooks financial management software for small businesses, has found. Despite the gloomy economic conditions, one in five women business owners (... Read >

Take it Easy this New Year

OK, so it's time to eat better, get fit and to save money in the process. Whatever your New Year's resolutions are this year they are likely to include losing pounds of one kind and saving pounds of the other. Many people say that they don't make resolu... Read >

Finding a Veg Box Scheme to Suit Your Budget and Lifestyle

The last twenty years has seen a gradual transformation in the way we shop for food and every day essentials. Changing consumer priorities and the internet have both played a big role in these changes. The demand for food that is locally sourced and org... Read >

Online Groceries Set for Growth and Improvement

A number of supermarkets have reported that they had a disappointing Christmas. This doesn’t mean that everybody bought them socks this year. They’d probably have been glad of a few more socks – or at least sock sales. In store sales fig... Read >

Online Groceries Set for Growth and Improvement

A number of supermarkets have reported that they had a disappointing Christmas. This doesn’t mean that everybody bought them socks this year. They’d probably have been glad of a few more socks – or at least sock sales. In store sales figures were at t... Read >

Don’t let your clients get caught out by VAT

It's certainly easy for businesses who are not VAT registered to be caught out by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) VAT laws. The VAT Initiative allows business owners who may have inadvertently missed out on paying VAT to have a reprieve - paying just 10% extr... Read >

Holidays 2012 – Florida’s hotspots

Florida is an ideal spot for a family holiday combining the best of more than one world; from theme parks for the kids to relaxing tropical beaches, fantastic shopping, dining and entertainment. It also contains a host of unique national parks and attrac... Read >

Different themes for Florida holidays in 2012

If I need to mention Theme Parks and Florida in the same breath – then you’ve probably been in a coma for some time. Florida is an ideal place for a family holiday with theme parks and attractions to suit small kids, medium-sized kids, and really, really... Read >

milk and more - Busy mums spend half a year of their lives food shopping

Hardworking mums spend 27,250 hours and 31 minutes running around after their families in their lifetime meaning that after having kids, women spend a third of their waking life looking after them. Shopping takes up the bulk of that time with the avera... Read >

The return of the milkman the new green grocers on the block

Green living is nothing new - it's actually been the 'default state' of human existence for the last few millennia. Until, that is the last fifty years or so. Changes in lifestyle, food production, rapid technological advancement over the last hundred y... Read >

Sainsbury profits up on new stores and cost control

Reporting it's H1 results today, UK No3 grocer, J Sainsbury said total sales (including VAT, and fuel) were up 7.6% (4.3% excluding fuel), with like-for-like sales up 1.9%. Tight control of costs helped grow underlying operating profit by 7% to £396 mil... Read >

JJB suffer further slide in sales and margins which are causing mounting losses

JJB Sports, the struggling Wigan-based sports retailer, which resorted to a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) to protect itself, has unveiled LFL sales down 17.7% for H1 to July 31st to underline the tough trading conditions at it's 202 stores on the hi... Read >