1. Bizantra
This UK-based company has started to make waves for all the right reasons- featuring at the recent Entrepreneur Country Forum alongside the likes of IBM and Microsoft. In a single, free-of-charge to start-ups for a year package, Bizantra small business management supersedes incompatible, costly and time consuming Finance, CRM, HR, Document Sharing and Productive software.
2. Meg Whitman
Newly appointed CEO Meg Whitman has agreed to join Silicon Valley’s $1-a-year club as she moves from a board seat into the hot seat at the beleaguered HP. Whitman, the former CEO of eBay and failed California gubernatorial candidate follows the lead of the likes of Oracle chief Larry Ellison and the late Apple Chairman Steve Jobs in accepting a peppercorn salary- although it’s rumoured she will be eligible for a package including stock options and annual bonus of up to $6 million.
3. David Cameron The Prime Ministers conference speech played to the Tory faithful as opposed to being a moment of pivotal policy development but his rallying call to business and common sense continues to carry the backing of UK plc. The economy may continue to be fraught with danger but 42% of entrepreneurs and SMEs have faith that David Cameron is the man to get us out of the crisis, compared to only 13% for his opposite number Ed Miliband.
4. LabelSneak
LabelSneak is a new members-only sale site founded in 2011. The site offers exciting bargains for its membership by sourcing out-of- season garments or overstock, which entices new members with discounts of up to 80% on designer clothes and sportswear. With an aggressive go to market strategy aimed at acquiring a membership of 1 million users in year 1 and the backing of major sporting personalities such as Austin Healey and Robbie Savage this could be a growth business to watch.
5. The Bank of England Whilst the chances of an additional round of quantitative easing have been increasing in recent months, few would have predicted last weeks announcement of an additional £75bn injection from the Bank of England. The reaction from business was warm, Ian McCafferty, the CBI’s chief economic adviser saying that “this measure will help support confidence.”
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