Cath Kidston customers go potty for new Winnie-the-Pooh range Cath Kidston has launched its collaborative designs with Disney’s Winnie-the-Pooh, with most products selling out within hours. The brand experienced its largest online full price sales to date and traffic on the website hit record highs at 3500 per cent more visitors than usual. Around one mug was sold every minute (58 per hour) and there [...]
Mums could boost London economy by £16bn with more flexible working A lack of flexible work for stay-at-home mums is costing the capital up to £16bn in lost economic activity every year, a new report has found. Over three quarters of stay-at-home mums in London would go back to work if there were more flexible options, according a survey by Digital Mums and the Centre for Economics and [...]
Government cycle safety campaign from THINK! provokes backlash – from cyclists A new cycle safety video from THINK! has sparked a backlash on Twitter from cyclists and motorists alike. THINK!, which is run by the Department for Transport and promotes road safety, highlighted the dangers posed to cyclists by lorries turning left at junctions in a video shared on Twitter. But the film received an immediate [...]
London SMEs have ranked as the second highest savers nationally, pipped only to the post by the east of England September 26, 2016 London SMEs are the second highest savers into business saving accounts, having an average of £829,000 stashed away, according to research released yesterday. However, the Hampshire Trust Bank study also found that SMEs in the east of England have overtaken London SMEs since last year to be named the biggest savers, with an average of [...]
UK’s small businesses waste one day a year taking cash to the bank September 26, 2016 UK SMEs spend 26 hours a year travelling to make cash deposits, research out today has found. Total average time spent making deposits has led to the loss of 93m hours across all UK SMEs, with one fifth (18 per cent) having to shut up shop during trading hours to do so, placing pressures on [...]