Small Businesses

The business of farm-produced ice cream

I came across a fantastic article on the costs and revenues of setting up an ice-cream business. 

Farm diversification is still small business

I was a little surprised to learn that there are only 60,000 farms in the UK that sustain a full-time farmer, and that less than a quarter of these have diversified into other business areas that don’t involve the letting of buildings.

Startups find success with a green ethic

Rachel Bridge writes some superb pieces in her enterprise column for The Sunday Times.  I really liked Rachel’s piece a couple of weekends ago which took a look at how a selection of successful startups embraced environmentally-friendly and ethical trading at the core of their activities.

Fudges finds its niche

Here is a great example of a food manufacturing business that has reinvented itself to successfully exploit a niche for luxury food products. The video link would make a great lesson starter resource and there is lots of business studies content that can be drawn out through discussion and further research.

Late payment is strangling the cash flow of small businesses

We had a good day for customer cheques and BACS payment today.  However, a new report from Barclays suggests that we are lucky.  Small businesses are being submerged under the increasing burden amounts owed by trade debtors.