Blog and updates
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14 Sept 2015
AQA A Level Business (AS) Course Companion
Our digital Course Companion for the Year 1 (AS) teaching content of AQA A Level Business is being published at the end of this week (Friday 18 September). We'll be despatching all pre-orders on...
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11 Sept 2015
The Future of E-commerce Could be Less Choice, Not More
In the UK over 95% of people shop online and the country spends more per capita through the internet than any other country. Online sales are booming and there only seems to be one way in which...
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10 Sept 2015
Apple & Microsoft: Collaboration not Competition
An excellent piece here from BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones on the changing relationship between Apple and Microsoft.
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10 Sept 2015
Business Costs and Benefits of a National Living Wage
A flow of stories in the business news over recent days are highlighting the potential business implications of UK government plans for a "national living wage".
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10 Sept 2015
Apple Launches the Accessory Steve Jobs Didn't Really Want You to Have
Flashback to 2010. Asked about what he thought would work in the emerging computer tablet market, Steve Jobs famously replied: "If you see a stylus, they blew it.".Fast forward to 9 September 2015...
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10 Sept 2015
SME's in the UK Are Missing the Opportunities of E-Commerce
A recent report by the Department for Business Innovation & Skills highlighted the extent to which SMEs are embracing digital technology with many SMEs not currently making the most of the...
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10 Sept 2015
EntrepreneurLIVE! 2015 Meet Our Entrepreneurs
EntrepreneurLIVE! 2015 takes place in October 2015. A superb enrichment event for all business students and teachers.Below are some brief profiles of the entrepreneurs who are joining us for the...
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9 Sept 2015
WM Morrisons - An Inconvenient Truth
It's all over for WM Morrisons' attempt to succeed in the UK convenience store market.Morrisons have sold their loss-making portfolio of 140 stores to a venture-capital funded management buy-in led...
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9 Sept 2015
B2B e-commerce market to reach 6.7 trillion by 2020
A recent report by Frost & Sullivan estimates that the B2B e-commerce network will generate in the region of $6.7 trillion by 2020.
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9 Sept 2015
Online shopping revs up UK van sales
Sales of new vans hit a record high in the first quarter of 2015, driven by a boom in home deliveries of online purchases.
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9 Sept 2015
Amazon Business Aims for $1 Trillion US Corporate-Spending Market
Amazon is going after a new class of customers: other businesses. Only a few months ago Amazon unveiled ‘Amazon Business’, a new marketplace offering tractor parts, latex gloves, paper clips and...
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9 Sept 2015
The Biz Quiz - 9 September 2015
The first edition of The Biz Quiz for 2015/16 is now live!Launch The Biz Quiz - 9 September 2015Download printable (pdf) questionsDownload printable (pdf) answers
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7 Sept 2015
Personal Branding and the Marketing Mix
Students never really cognitively understand something until they can create a personal metaphor or model, so to help students understand the ever-important Marketing Mix, I’ve asked students to...
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6 Sept 2015
International Expansion - Can Primark Win in the US?
Fast-fashion giant Primark is the latest retailer to have a go at making it big in the US retail market.
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6 Sept 2015
Solar Subsidies - Fears for the UK Solar Industry
The UK's renewable energy industry is up in arms about a proposed change to the subsidies that the UK Government has been offering in recent years for households and businesses who install solar...
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6 Sept 2015
Memory Challenge (Starter Activity)
Here is a fun starter activity which is quick and easy to set up and provides a good way of building familiarity with key terms.
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5 Sept 2015
Amazon's Fire Phone Flop
Stick to selling things rather than making them. That might be the message for Jeff Bezos and his team at Amazon after they decided to abandon their attempt to enter the global smartphone market.
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5 Sept 2015
Counting the Cost of Stock-Outs
Inventory (or stock) control is a prominent feature of the new A Level Business specifications and the importance of avoiding stock-outs is highlighted by some new global retail research.
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5 Sept 2015
Poundland Ventures Online
Single-price discount retailer Poundland has become the latest UK retail chain to somewhat belatedly enter the world of online shopping.
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4 Sept 2015
Harry Styles and SeaWorld - The Business Impact of Social Media
The potentially damaging impact of social media on demand for goods and services is illustrated here in this WSJ video.It reports on analysis that suggests critical comments by 1D's Harry Styles...
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