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Serena Williams is launching a beauty line — is there anything she can't do?
Never one to half-step something, the new mom will be venturing into skin-care prep, makeup removal, colognes, and perfumes.
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British couple forced to shut down fledgling chocolate business
A British couple, Robert Jeffreys (30) and Rebecca Gerken (26), intended to cash in on a shortage of British Cadbury products in the US, by getting people to sign up for regular home deliveries of chocolate sent direct from the UK. Unfortunately,
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Pension changes 2015: funding a new business
In the wake of the financial crisis, many older workers are finding it increasingly difficult to get a job and, as a result, are turning to self-employment. Indeed, recent figures from the Office For National Statistics show that one in six new
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Top ten dodgiest expenses claims
A tax firm has revealed that it's not just MPs who are busy dreaming up increasingly strange things to claim on expenses. They conducted research to find the top ten dodgiest expense claims that UK taxpayers had tried to get past the taxman
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The barber inside a pub - is this the oddest combination?
While hundreds of traditional British pubs face difficult times, and hundreds more have been forced to close, one has taken an unusual approach which has seen the business flourish. The Gallaghers Pub and Barbers is a traditional pub with a very
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How to tame your armchair dragon
Vince Cable may have said that he thought there were signs of banks lending to small businesses again but many of them still can't see it. Last week saw the Federation of Small Business' "Voice of Small Business" which suggested
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Business insolvencies increasing due to cash shortage
The headline looks as though it's stating the obvious but it's serious - in the fourth quarter of last year there were 4620 businesses going belly-up, 7.2% more than the same quarter the year before - and the latest report from Bobby