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Home swap website receives cash injection

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Love Home Swap, a holiday exchange website for homeowners, set up by serial entrepreneur Debbie Wosskow, has received an £800,000 cash injection.

Mamma Mia! creator still in the money

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

She is hard at work on Viva Forever, the Spice Girls musical due to debut in London’s West End at the end of this year. Meanwhile, Judy Craymer is continuing to reap the rewards of her first musical, the global phenomenon Mamma Mia!

The fuel bills that only rise

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Recent promises by energy suppliers to cut prices have made the headlines but small businesses are likely to face signficant increases unless they shop around

Arena’s flower power wins US deal to supply Europe

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

A new deal with an American giant should prove a big boost for British firm Arena Flowers

Husband and wife teams are warned of impact of divorce

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

Husband and wife business owners are advised to think ahead and plan for relationship pitfalls to avoid affecting the business

Business briefing

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

Plans to increase postal costs could harm small firms warn the Forum of Private Business, while Richard Branson is backing Liverpool’s bid to become a world capital for entrepreneurship

Miriam O’Reilly quits the BBC one year after ageism case

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Miriam O’Reilly is leaving the BBC a year after she won an age discrimination case against the corporation.

Balancing the Bump: Parenting disabled children and the workplace

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Exclusively for FMWF, employment law specialist Annabel Kaye and Allie Stewart, MD of The Life-Changing Company – members of 1230 The Women’s Company – tackle the complex issues involved in being a working parent with disabled children.