
After a challenging period dealing with Brexit, rising energy prices, international uncertainty and more, the next five years are set to be crucial for UK manufacturers.

From the rise in popularity of AI to increasing staffing costs, many businesses are in agreement that the year ahead could be a challenging one as 53% say that their business plans for 2025 are more about survival than growth.

While sector diversity is increasing, manufacturing – like other STEM industries – continues to rank amongst the most male-dominated sectors in the UK.

Adobe Express has conducted an extensive study, to find out what would make UK consumers buy or ignore a brand, the positive (and least positive) experiences they’ve had and how brands can utilise their marketing and sales tactics to win over consumers in different industries.

If distribution and fulfilment operations ever did benefit from ‘cheap’ labour, a series of recent Government announcements has ensured that era is well and truly over.

January 31st 2025 marked Brexit’s official 5th anniversary, and – for some businesses – international trade remains a point of great frustration.

“I love tariffs.” “Tariff is my favourite word.” “The most beautiful world in the dictionary is tariff.” “I tell you: I think it’s more beautiful than love” – forget Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump has a new love affair – and it might hit closer to home than you expect.

The Swiss-based start-up Egidays is campaigning for a world where menstrual products are as freely available as toilet paper in every public bathroom.

Residents in Derbyshire are set to benefit from a series of retrofit works to estates in New Mills and Tintwistle which will make their homes fit for the future.

Selling any kind of business can feel like a pretty daunting prospect. It’s not like other products that can be neatly packaged up and listed on an online marketplace. There are multiple moving parts, and a whole host of complex factors that have to be considered, from regulatory compliance to valuation. Businesses in the retail […]

The agricultural sector is one of the UK’s oldest and most treasured exports, but has faced some of the most significant challenges of any industry in recent years.

Full-time employment continues to go backwards following the Government’s disastrous decision to go after employers in its budget.