Power and particularly fuel concerns continue to populate the news for businesses today. The Guardian has a piece on greenhouse gases, the price of petrol in Iraq and the coal alternative. Yesterday's Observer carried warnings of an all-out strike over the Gate Gourmet dispute at Heathrow (more on that on the BBC this morning, an item on increasing gas costs and more on London businesses' reactions to terrorism.
It's Monday and that means the Daily Telegraph's small to medium enterprise section. Today there's more on taxes on research and development and a piece on tax disputes - apparently if you throw experts at the Inland Revenue they turn into pussy-cats.
Yesterday's Sunday Times confounded the trend by predicting more interest rate cuts, which after last week's warnings basically tells us that nobody has any idea whether there will be a rate cut; in another feature the same paper refers to the splits over the recent cut. There was also a piece on why being a small firm is better than being big.
The Independent notes that the health club market is about to consolidate - which is almost certainly a euphemism for "shrink", so if you're a smaller operator in the field, watch it. It also has more on last week's story about people losing out by contracting out of Serps - looks like we were done again.
Finally the Daily Mail has a new spin on losing your shirt, at least if you're in clothing retail - how about losing a load of trousers before they're even in stock..?
