Blog and updates
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20 Nov 2015
Solid Growth Continues for UK E-Commerce Sales
The ONS has just released its latest statistical bulletin on retail sales and reported continued growth in online sales.
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20 Nov 2015
Low-Cost Gym Group Floats Raising £90m
In just seven years, budget fitness operator The Gym Group has grown rapidly to achieve a stock market flotation (IPO) valuing the business at around £250 million.
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20 Nov 2015
Long-term Strategy Eats Fashion for Lunch
A superb video here from the FT which explores how fashions come and go in business - and never more so than with business strategy.
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20 Nov 2015
Uber's Battle with "Employee" Stakeholders
Are Uber drivers in the UK self-employed entrepreneurs, or are they really employees of Uber who deserve the rights afforded by UK employment law?
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20 Nov 2015
Can Pebble Beat Apple?
The smartwatch market has attracted several new entrants recently, most notably Apple with its iWatch. However, years before Apple even released the iWatch, a small Silicon Valley company called...
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20 Nov 2015
Amazon Pantry Arrives in the UK
A new entrant into the UK grocery market has arrived. Amazon Pantry - selling an initial range of 4,000 popular branded grocery items - is now available to Amazon Prime customers. What will the...
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20 Nov 2015
Manufacturing in the Mire
Things are simply not getting better for UK manufacturers. Put simply - there is no "march of the makers". Back in 2011 George Osborne famously heralded the important role of UK manufacturing in...
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20 Nov 2015
Problems at Poundland
Shareholders in Poundland are getting nervous after news that a major takeover is taking time to integrate and volatile trading is threatening profits over the crucial Christmas trading period.
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19 Nov 2015
The Biz Quiz - 18 November 2015
The latest edition of The Biz Quiz is now live! Another tough one this week - any score over 60% is impressive!
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16 Nov 2015
OCR A2 Business Unit F297 - VGL Revision Toolkit
We are pleased to announce the publication of our case study revision toolkit for OCR A2 Business Studies Unit F297.
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14 Nov 2015
Amazon Setting the Standard in Same Day Delivery
Same-day delivery wars is hotting up in the UK, but Amazon is still setting the standards.
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13 Nov 2015
Halfords Wheelie Poor Summer has Share Price Backpedalling
Shares in UK retailer Halfords have fallen 9% after it reported a near 6% drop in half-year profits on lower bicycle sales
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13 Nov 2015
Aaran Furniture Ltd - OCR GCSE Business Case Study Toolkit for 2016
We are delighted to announced that Mark Gardiner's superb teaching & revision toolkit for the Aaran Furniture case study (OCR GCSE Business Unit A293) is now available.
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12 Nov 2015
Brands Go Direct and Digital With Personalised Products
We've all heard the joke. "I've just won a lifetime's supply of Marmite - one jar". But at least now that jar might have your name on it.
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12 Nov 2015
Will Privacy be the Source of Competitive Advantage Blackberry Needs to Succeed?
Blackberry is back! With its market share of the global smartphone now down to around 1% we might have thought that Blackberry was gone for good as a realistic competitor to Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi,...
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12 Nov 2015
The Sound of Luxury - $50k Headphones
I bought what I considered to be quite an expensive set of headphones the other day - Bose wireless was my choice. At the time I thought I was splashing out a little more than Mrs Riley might...
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12 Nov 2015
tutor2u Business is Coming to Malaysia: 25-27 February 2016
We are delighted to be visiting our teaching colleagues in the Far East region once again in 2016 - this time to Malaysia. The tutor2u Business team is visiting Kuala Lumpur on 25-27 February 2016...
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12 Nov 2015
tutor2u Business is Coming to Dubai: 9-11 February 2016
We are delighted to be visiting our teaching colleagues in the UAE again in 2016. The tutor2u Business team is visiting Dubai on 9-11 February 2016 to deliver a series of our most popular CPD courses.
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12 Nov 2015
Is This the End of Black Friday?
Asda have announced that they will not be participating in Black Friday this year despite introducing it to the UK taking inspiration from their American counterpart, WalMart. But why?
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11 Nov 2015
A Safe and Steady Strategy for International Expansion by John Lewis Partnership
Many successful UK retailers have ambitions to replicate their model in international markets, but come unstuck with the wrong strategy. Not surprisingly, John Lewis is also looking to exploit...
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