6th December 2017

More on 'surplus food'

As a follow-up to the story of the Co-op selling food which is beyond it's 'Best Before' date, there is a video report here about Wefood, a Danish supermarket which specialises in sourcing and...

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How do you build trust in a business, and how do you motivate top executives? For the UK-listed companies, these are issues that the Financial Reporting Council is addressing with a revised...

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The FT reports on a new 30,000 square foot coffee roastery that Starbucks is building in China. As per capita incomes rise, Starbucks has one eye on a major prize, namely capturing sales from...

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5th December 2017

Waste not, want not

What do businesses do? They use inputs - land, labour, capital and enterprise - to create goods and services, and a key focus of their operations department is to minimise the inevitable waste that...

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The last standard Biz Quiz of the year before our Annual Business edition for 2017 next week!

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30th November 2017

Don't cook, Just Eat

Anyone who has just watched this week's episode of The Apprentice, with the teams devising recipes and branding for home-cooked convenience food, will understand the rival appeal of takeaway...

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29th November 2017

Film star ratios

There is a nice little Ratio Oscars exercise in the Metro newspaper today. The article looks at research comparing the cost of making films starring British actors, and the revenue they earn from...

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National Consumer Week launches today, to coincide with Cyber Monday, and despite its name, is aimed just as much at businesses as it is at consumers. This is an annual event, involving Citizens...

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The research theme for 2018 is now available. Our 2018 Research Toolkit and Mock Paper/Mark Scheme is now in production. This can be ordered now online and is being published in stages.

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10 questions here on the business news of the last 7 days! Have a go...

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This would make a fantastic starter with students as we 'approach' the festive season.

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Here is a quick activity that would be ideal at the start of a Year 13 lesson to ensure that students are re-capping Year 1 content or as a revision activity.

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Has the past week seen a seismic shift in the UK's shopping habits: Amazon are opening a 'guerrilla shop' in London to cope with the increased demand for Christmas goodies on Black Friday, and...

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The first 8 minutes of this week's edition of Click, the BBC's weekly roundup of tech news, features a visit to the OnePlus phone factory in Shenzhen. It quickly falls into that category of...

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The latest Biz Quiz is now available - featuring 10 questions on this week's business news!

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A good example here of a business raising their prices following an increase in import costs after the depreciation of sterling against the Euro and US dollar in the wake of the June 2016 Brexit...

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15th November 2017

Flying first class?

Flying first class is something that few of us will ever have the privilege, or luck, to experience - and the opportunity is getting more and more rare.

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UK horticultural farmers rely on being able to employ migrant staff, and usually expect to re-employ the same people year after year when they need them for the labour-intensive harvest. But the...

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Here it is - the latest in the iconic series of heart-tugging Christmas adverts from John Lewis. A rumoured £7m investment for something they hope will have a very short payback period - and...

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The latest edition of The Biz Quiz is now live - good luck!

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