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  • Mum of three’s award-winning decorating business

    |Date: 8 March, 2022
    Mum of three’s award-winning decorating business

    Mum of three’s award-winning decorating business

    When Rachel Bates became a single mum in 2014, her first priority was to find a new job that would pay th ...

    When Rachel Bates became a single mum in 2014, her first priority was to find a new job that would pay the bills and provide more flexibility to support her three sons, Lewis, Calum and Eli. After see ...

    8 March, 2022
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  • How firms can build back stronger and greener through digitisation

    |Date: 8 March, 2022
    How firms can build back stronger and greener through digitisation

    How firms can build back stronger and greener through digitisation

    Beverley Wise, Regional Director UK & Ireland for Webfleet Solutions, explains how digitisation and t ...

    Beverley Wise, Regional Director UK & Ireland for Webfleet Solutions, explains how digitisation and telematics can help firms build back stronger and greener. As the economy rebounds, the outlook ...

    8 March, 2022
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  • How to grow your business with Rated People

    |Date: 7 March, 2022
    How to grow your business with Rated People

    How to grow your business with Rated People

    Jack Lemon, Head of Tradespeople Marketing at Rated People, explains how the company can help your busine ...

    Jack Lemon, Head of Tradespeople Marketing at Rated People, explains how the company can help your business thrive. At a time when there’s high customer demand for tradespeople, you may wonder what an ...

    7 March, 2022
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  • New research reveals top locations for starting a new trade business

    |Date: 3 March, 2022
    New research reveals top locations for starting a new trade business

    New research reveals top locations for starting a new trade business

    A new study using Companies House data has revealed that 31,999 new businesses in the Trades sector were ...

    A new study using Companies House data has revealed that 31,999 new businesses in the Trades sector were founded in 2021  6598 of Trades businesses formed in 2021 were for Electrical installation, whi ...

    3 March, 2022
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  • Stuart Thompson joins Grant UK as new Area Sales Manager for Wales

    |Date: 24 February, 2022
    Stuart Thompson joins Grant UK as new Area Sales Manager for Wales

    Stuart Thompson joins Grant UK as new Area Sales Manager for Wales

    Grant UK’s Sales Team has recently welcomed Stuart Thompson as the new Area Sales Manager for Wales and t ...

    Grant UK’s Sales Team has recently welcomed Stuart Thompson as the new Area Sales Manager for Wales and the West of England. Stuart will be on hand to help heating engineers, installers and merchants ...

    24 February, 2022
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  • Dulux Decorator Centre commits to carbon reduction plan to help decorators build more sustainable businesses

    |Date: 22 February, 2022
    Dulux Decorator Centre commits to carbon reduction plan to help decorators build more sustainable businesses

    Dulux Decorator Centre commits to carbon reduction plan to help decorators build more sustainable businesses

    Dulux Decorator Centre is strengthening its commitment to providing the ultimate choice of sustainable pr ...

    Dulux Decorator Centre is strengthening its commitment to providing the ultimate choice of sustainable products and services - to ensure the trade can be kinder to the planet without compromising on q ...

    22 February, 2022
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  • Lime Green and RetrofitWorks champion sustainable building practices

    |Date: 3 February, 2022
    Lime Green and RetrofitWorks champion sustainable building practices

    Lime Green and RetrofitWorks champion sustainable building practices

    Lime Green and RetrofitWorks have come together to champion sustainable building practices.  “Low carbon, ...

    Lime Green and RetrofitWorks have come together to champion sustainable building practices.  “Low carbon, healthy and sustainable solutions are really important for all of our retrofit measures,” says ...

    3 February, 2022
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  • Simple and effective ways to grow your business

    |Date: 29 December, 2021
    Simple and effective ways to grow your business

    Simple and effective ways to grow your business

    Marley’s Daniel Redfern looks at some simple, but effective, ways to grow your business. NFRC membership ...

    Marley’s Daniel Redfern looks at some simple, but effective, ways to grow your business. NFRC membership As well as reassuring your customers of high-quality standards, being a member of the NFRC allo ...

    29 December, 2021
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  • Managing your business and projects with Payaca

    |Date: 1 December, 2021
    Managing your business and projects with Payaca

    Managing your business and projects with Payaca

    Through Payaca the trades can manage their business and the projects they undertake – and upsell along th ...

    Through Payaca the trades can manage their business and the projects they undertake – and upsell along the way. Professional Builder’s Lee Jones talks to the company’s Matt Franklin about the function ...

    1 December, 2021
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  • Made for Trade’s further expansion leads to Commercial Director acquisition

    |Date: 11 November, 2021
    Made for Trade's further expansion leads to Commercial Director acquisition

    Made for Trade’s further expansion leads to Commercial Director acquisition

    Made for Trade are looking forward to big steps forward in 2022 as they continue to build on the success ...

    Made for Trade are looking forward to big steps forward in 2022 as they continue to build on the success of the multi award winning Korniche Lantern with the ramping up in production of their new Korn ...

    11 November, 2021
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  • Budget lets down small businesses…once again, says Forum of Private Business

    |Date: 8 November, 2021
    Budget lets down small businesses…once again, says Forum of Private Business

    Budget lets down small businesses…once again, says Forum of Private Business

    Business support organisation, the Forum of Private Business, has highlighted that the Chancellor has onc ...

    Business support organisation, the Forum of Private Business, has highlighted that the Chancellor has once again failed to address the issue of Business Rates properly, and missed the opportunity to c ...

    8 November, 2021
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  • Recommend & Share: online platform between businesses and consumers

    |Date: 13 October, 2021
    Recommend & Share: online platform between businesses and consumers

    Recommend & Share: online platform between businesses and consumers

    Professional Builder’s Lee Jones reports on a tradesman who has ambitions to build a community of trust b ...

    Professional Builder’s Lee Jones reports on a tradesman who has ambitions to build a community of trust between businesses and consumers. The story of Garry Lewis will be an all-too familiar tale for ...

    13 October, 2021
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  • Over 112,000 UK trade businesses have been set up since the first lockdown 

    |Date: 14 September, 2021
    Over 112,000 UK trade businesses have been set up since the first lockdown 

    Over 112,000 UK trade businesses have been set up since the first lockdown 

    Since the first Coronavirus lockdown was announced on 23rd March 2020, over 112,000 trade businesses have ...

    Since the first Coronavirus lockdown was announced on 23rd March 2020, over 112,000 trade businesses have been set up in the UK, new research has revealed. More than one in ten of the UK’s lockdown bu ...

    14 September, 2021
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  • 13% of UK tradespeople fear business could get worse

    |Date: 20 May, 2021
    13% of UK tradespeople fear business could get worse

    13% of UK tradespeople fear business could get worse

    Tradespeople in the UK are less optimistic about the year ahead than their antipodean counterparts, accor ...

    Tradespeople in the UK are less optimistic about the year ahead than their antipodean counterparts, according to recent research from Tradify.  While most UK tradespeople believe that general business ...

    20 May, 2021
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  • Business solution products – April 2021

    |Date: 23 April, 2021
    Business solution products - April 2021

    Business solution products – April 2021

    PROJECT PACKAGES A collection of off-the-shelf project packages to help builders complete loft conversion ...

    PROJECT PACKAGES A collection of off-the-shelf project packages to help builders complete loft conversions and garden rooms with greater ease and speed has been launched by Build Aviator. Builders sim ...

    23 April, 2021
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  • Dulux helping get the trade back on its feet

    |Date: 23 July, 2020
    Dulux helping get the trade back on its feet

    Dulux helping get the trade back on its feet

    Dulux Decorator Centre is helping the nation’s decorators build their businesses back up with a new job-f ...

    Dulux Decorator Centre is helping the nation’s decorators build their businesses back up with a new job-finding service, alongside free Checkatrade membership The measures are part of their Backing Ou ...

    23 July, 2020
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