The John Lewis Partnership is under increasing pressure to hand back millions of pounds of business rates relief after revealing that it performed better than expected at the end of last year
Kindness economy booms as Prontaprint King s Lynn offering free printing for home schoolers
| Updated: 13:30, 15 January 2021
The Coronavirus outbreak has seen many businesses adapt to the changing landscape of everyday life.
Prontaprint, which opened in August, are now offering free printouts for home-schooling parents who don t have use of a printer.
James Wild MP opens the New Prontaprint in St James Street, King s Lynn, just across the road from the previous shop, along with Prontaprint owner Jenny Richards .. (42218447)
Jenny Richards, owner of Prontaprint said: I was inspired by a post I saw online about an estate agent near Newcastle using their photocopier for families and I thought to myself If they can do it, we certainly can!
1 | Jan 6, 2021
At the start of a new year, many people will be hoping to use this time as a kind of mental reset, to put 2020 behind them and focus on the future.
On UKBF, we usually mark the occasion with a series of business trends we expect to see in the year ahead, but it now seems hard to trust any predictions at all.
This time last year, when I wrote optimistically about technological breakthroughs and international sporting events, few people could have guessed what was really in store for us in 2020.
That said, some of the themes covered in that article are still relevant in 2021. Environmental concerns and ethical consumerism are still on the rise, as are fears over the spread of misinformation online – a point Channel 4 set out to make this Christmas with its ‘Deepfake Queen’.
We d ordinarily be knee-deep in post-NYE "new year, new you!" shenanigans. But this is no ordinary time. And the silver lining is that 2021 comes with a fully fledged excuse for not feeling as though we have to give our homes/bodies/wardrobes a total makeover. Instead, we can sit back and watch other people doing it, guilt-free. Sheena McGinley counts down TV s top improvement programmes
How the high street has changed in 2020 - the stores we lost, and what the future might hold
The coronavirus pandemic has left the future of the UK high street more uncertain than ever before. Fionnula Hainey reports on some of the biggest losses of the year.
12:47, 29 DEC 2020
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