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Growing a retail business - Cunningham Butchers & Food Hall (video)
James Cunningham, Managing Director of Cunningham Butchers & Food Hall, explains how they successfully grew their retail business.
Advantages and disadvantages of online retailing
Online retail has advantages and disadvantages for businesses with huge growth potential balanced against initial costs and security and legal issues.
Explore new retail opportunities
Growing your retail business takes a good business plan as well as spotting and exploiting the right opportunities, discover the options for expanding.
Set up a charity
Key steps to setting up a charity, including choosing the right charity structure, finding trustees and registering your charity.
Visual merchandising for your retail business
How to use visual merchandising to promote your retail business and products, attract customers and drive sales.
Visual merchandising: point-of-sale displays and price promotions
Customers can be encouraged to make impulse purchases by using point-of-sale displays and price promotions.
Visual merchandising: advantages of retail window displays
Effectively using window displays can have many benefits for your business.
How to improve and measure the impact of visual merchandising
Monitoring your visual merchandising can help you to decide whether to continue or change what you’re doing.
Assessments and requirements when merging businesses
How anti-competitive mergers are investigated by the Competition & Markets Authority and the UK government.
When are mergers investigated?
Who investigates mergers and why certain mergers are investigated.
Notifying authorities of a merger
When to notify the CMA and the UK government of your merger.
Merger assessment and decisions
What the CMA will take into account when deciding whether to refer a merger, and the decisions it can make.
Staffing issues during a merger or acquisition
Keep all staff informed and assess issues that may affect them when considering a merger or acquisition.
Merger and acquisition deals - a checklist
A checklist of procedures for mergers and acquisitions and the importance of getting professional advice.
Legal aspects of mergers and acquisitions
The legal aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
Registering as a fireworks retailer
How to register with the Department of Justice as a firework retailer in Northern Ireland and why it is important to ensure you have an up-to-date licence.
Financing your business: the options (video)
Tutorial on common ways to raise business finance, such as bank finance, equity finance and accessing government grants.
Company name and trade mark checker
Check that your planned company name or trade mark is not already registered or similar to one already existing
Rules for naming your business
Information on the regulations that affect the name of your limited company or limited liability partnership
Five simple steps to set up a pop-up shop
Business planning, market research and complying with regulations are vital to pop-up business success.