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Boost Capital recognised as industry leader for ‘Best Alternative Business Funding Provider’
Boost Capital has been rated as one of the industry’s top alternative business funding providers. At the Business Moneyfacts Awards Boost Capital was rated ‘Highly Commended’ in the category of ‘Best Alternative Business Funding Provider,’ beating off competition from prominent financing...
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Carefully Managed Growth is the watch phrase for businesses in 2017, according to alternative lender.
THE New Year is traditionally a time of optimism, resolutions, and vows to be more productive. And 2017 is no different for Britain’s small businesses, according to Boost Capital Managing Director, Alex Littner, despite ongoing upsets caused by last June’s Brexit vote. The SME community is going...
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Christmas Comes But Once a Year, Followed by The January Blues for the Hospitality Trade
Boost Capital works with a whole range of hospitality businesses, and this year will be no different from the past. Alex Littner, Managing Director of Boost Capital shares the secrets for survival as the seasonal hype winds down. For hospitality firms, December is a whirl of Christmas parties and...
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Brexit, Bank Funding And Bureaucracy. 2016: The Year That Was
By Alex Littner, Managing Director of Boost Capital UNPREDICTABLE would be an appropriate word to characterise 2016. It’s certainly been a year that’s delivered big surprises, a few seismic changes, and – more positively – some progress for small businesses. Looking back over the last 12 months,...
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How Small Businesses Can Avoid Christmas Humbug
CHRISTMAS is a time for cheer – not least of all for the retail industry, which experiences its busiest time in December. But it can also bring some unexpected, and not always joyful, surprises for small business owners. Logistics hiccups, bad weather, and problems with cashflow all have the potential...
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Boost Survey backs Chamber of Commerce Post Brexit Business Optimism
A survey of 500 businesses into preparedness for Brexit, undertaken by alternative lender Boost Capital, has backed the British Chamber of Commerce’s forecast of increased confidence and growth. Despite months of widespread fear and uncertainty following British voters’ decision to leave the...
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Boosting small business survival on Small Business Saturday
Boost Capital, lenders of over £750m to small businesses, offers its top six tips for business survival on Small Business Saturday. 1. Don’t go it alone. Based on experience in Boost Capital, those businesses starting with a non family business partner have a greater likelihood of survival and...
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Celebrate SMEs As Local Champions This Small Business Saturday
Comment by Alex Littner, Managing Director of Boost Capital SHOP small. Shop local. That’s the message to consumers this December 3, the UK’s fourth ever Small Business Saturday (https://smallbusinesssaturdayuk.com/ ), a celebration of the work that SMEs do in their communities. But while small...
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Higher Wage Bills Give SMEs Little Cheer In The Last Ever Autumn Statement
By Alex Littner, managing director of Boost Capital (http://www.boostcapital.co.uk/) BREXIT was always set to cast a long shadow over the Autumn Statement, and the weak economic outlook made it unlikely the Chancellor would have much good news for Britain’s small business community. But with the Government...
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Autumn Statement Response from Small Business Lender Boost Capital
Alex Littner, managing director of short-term small business lender Boost Capital (http://www.boostcapital.co.uk/), said: “The confirmation that the National Living Wage will rise to £7.50 an hour next April will be a blow to many small firms already struggling to cope with higher pay rates. Our clients...