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Businesses in difficulty
Assess your business' performance. Ensuring customers pay you on time. Insolvency: the basics. Avoid insolvency. Individual insolvency: find out your options for dealing with debt. Complain against an undischarged bankrupt or disqualified company director
Considering buying a business
Obtaining information on a business you are thinking of buying. Understanding contracts when buying or selling a business. Assess your business' performance. Consider your exit strategy when starting up. ...
Buying a business
Buy an existing business. Legal structures: the basics. Choose the right name for your business. Understanding contracts when buying or selling a business.
Business acquisitions and mergers
Mergers. Mergers and acquisitions.
Selling your business
Complete the sale of your business. Closing a business checklist. How to achieve an employee buyout. Responsibilities to employees if you buy or sell a business. Company and LLP strike-off, dissolution and restoration. ...
Transferring your business
Selling or passing a business to a family member. Consider your exit strategy when starting up. Succession planning and business transfer.
Retail
Guidance on getting started in retail, improving your retail business, running a retail premises, retail and the environment, business finances and the law, and employing people in retail
Getting started in retail
Guides which can help you to start up a retail business from finding the right idea to investing in an existing business.
Improving your retail business
Guides to help you enhance and improve your retail business through marketing, growing sales and finding suppliers.
Your retail premises
Guides to help you find and effectively manage retail premises to ensure access for all and a safe retail environment.
Retail businesses and the environment
Guides to help your retail business lessen its impact on the environment and make a real difference on climate change.
Retailing and the law
Guides which summarise common legal issues which retail businesses must be aware of and comply with.
Employing people in your retail business
Guides which can help your retail business to understand employment issues, rights and how to comply with the law.
Rent business property
Guidance and tips on renting business property in Northern Ireland including commercial leases and landlord and tenant responsibilities
Business premises and rates - find a case study
Insight into how real businesses deal with premises and property issues on a practical level
Buy or sell a business - find a case study
Case studies focusing on companies that have been bought, sold or fanchised
Disabled access and facilities in business premises
Information on what adjustments you can make to ensure your business is accessible to disabled people.
How to improve access for people with disabilities
Change policies and procedures to improve disabled people's access to your business premises, products, and services.
When a person is considered to have a disability
Description of those people who are legally defined as disabled under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
Removing physical barriers to access
How to provide access to your services and products for people with disabilities.