TikTok launches platform to help small businesses through coronavirus pandemic recovery

Should you advertise your small business on TikTok? Social media favourite launches platform to help firms in the coronavirus recovery EXCLUSIVE: Video-sharing social network TikTok is launching a new platform for small and medium-sized businesses across Europe  Follows the launch of TikTok for Business which launched across Europe in June Chinese app will also spend … Read more

Global Entrepreneurship Week: Meet the people that launched their businesses during a time of chaos

It’s been a tough year for economies all around the world as coronavirus has taken lives, hit markets and forced long-standing businesses to close down for good. But the events of 2020 have also prompted many entrepreneurs to build in resilience at the core of their businesses, whether that has meant completely pivoting their business proposition, … Read more

Jennifer Lopez says she wants to expand her brand with three or four multibillion-dollar businesses

She has a reported net worth of $400million dollars.  But Jennifer Lopez has her eyes on an even bigger prize, with the 51-year-old pop star telling WSJ. Magazine on Wednesday that she and fiancé Alex Rodriguez have plans to build her brand into an empire. ‘Why can’t we build not one multibillion-dollar business, but three or four?’ the … Read more

MasterChef’s Callum Hann and Laura Sharrad are forced to close their Adelaide food businesses

MasterChef stars Callum Hann and Laura Sharrad are forced to close their Adelaide businesses as South Australia enters a mandatory six-day lockdown following a COVID outbreak By Demeter Stamell For Daily Mail Australia Published: 07:43 GMT, 18 November 2020 | Updated: 07:43 GMT, 18 November 2020 MasterChef’s Callum Hann and Laura Sharrad are among the celebrities … Read more

Businesses on the warpath as High Street loses £2bn a week in lockdown

Businesses leaders on the warpath as High Street loses £2bn a week in lockdown By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 17 November 2020 | Updated: 23:25 GMT, 17 November 2020 Business leaders yesterday slammed the Government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis and said the lockdown in England has left thousands of … Read more

Small businesses that have adapted to coronavirus pandemic

Nearly one in five small businesses have seen a 70 per cent decrease in income, according to new research. Typically, the average small or medium-sized enterprise has seen 30 per cent of their monthly taking shaved off, according to new research by Aldermore Bank.    To survive, many businesses have taken proactive steps to protect their … Read more

Supreme Court to rule on insurance payouts for 370,000 businesses hit by covid

Supreme Court judges will decide landmark case about insurance payouts for 370,000 businesses who couldn’t trade because of coronavirus pandemic Four-day case begins at the Supreme Court today involving 370,000 businesses  FCA brought test case over wording of business interruption insurance policies  It follows ‘widespread concern’ over ‘lack of clarity and certainty’ for businesses  By … Read more

How you can save small businesses – the beating heart of Britain

The Daily Mail is today helping to launch a charity that will provide grants of £1,000 to small businesses hit hard by the pandemic. As the country grapples with a second lockdown that could see thousands of small companies go to the wall, this newspaper is once again appealing to the generosity of the British … Read more

How you can support small businesses during lockdown

With another national lockdown in England underway, millions of us will be turning to different activities to keep us occupied. One of those activities is likely to be reading books as retailers have revealed that sales have soared this year.  Bloomsbury, the book publisher, says its profits have risen by 60 per cent this year, … Read more

A THIRD of hotel and food businesses fear going bust this year

A THIRD of hotel and food businesses had ‘no or low’ confidence they would survive to next year even BEFORE the national lockdown was declared Official survey shows accommodation and food industry huge hit from lockdown A third of businesses had ‘no or low’ confidence that they will survive the year  Gloomy assessment came even … Read more