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More Than a Third of Female Business Owners Put Growth Plans on Hold Due to High Interest Rates, Says Tide

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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Female business owners are putting growth plans on hold due to high interest rates, a survey by Tide1, the UK’s leading business financial platform, reveals.

Key Points: 
  • Female business owners are putting growth plans on hold due to high interest rates, a survey by Tide1, the UK’s leading business financial platform, reveals.
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    Tide’s new Female Business Owners UK Index shows women entrepreneurs find it difficult to plan for the future (Photo: Business Wire)
    The findings form part of Tide’s new Female Business Owners UK Index, launched today.
  • The index is a barometer examining challenges that women in the UK face when starting and growing their businesses.
  • Of the 458 women surveyed by Tide, 339, or 74%, say high interest rates have had a negative impact on their business in the last 6 months.

Goodyear survey reveals the most important festive purchase revealed - generosity wins this Christmas

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Friday, December 15, 2023
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Commissioned by Goodyear to highlight the key role played by transport fleets at Christmas, the survey concluded gifts for children, partners and family were top of the list.

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  • Commissioned by Goodyear to highlight the key role played by transport fleets at Christmas, the survey concluded gifts for children, partners and family were top of the list.
  • Significantly, the public was largely unconcerned with self-indulgence, with the fewest people anonymously telling researchers that gifts for themselves were of high importance.
  • People buy gifts for themselves less often than snacks, advent calendars and greeting cards, with only 33% of respondents saying that greeting cards are an important part of their Christmas tradition.
  • Gifts for families topped the list of most likely to purchase online, with food items ranking the lowest.

Goodyear survey reveals the most important festive purchase revealed - generosity wins this Christmas

Retrieved on: 
Friday, December 15, 2023
Christmas, Commercial, Family, Snack, Pressure, Great Pyramid of Giza, Giza pyramid complex, UK2, Atmosphere, Retail, Airline

Commissioned by Goodyear to highlight the key role played by transport fleets at Christmas, the survey concluded gifts for children, partners and family were top of the list.

Key Points: 
  • Commissioned by Goodyear to highlight the key role played by transport fleets at Christmas, the survey concluded gifts for children, partners and family were top of the list.
  • Significantly, the public was largely unconcerned with self-indulgence, with the fewest people anonymously telling researchers that gifts for themselves were of high importance.
  • People buy gifts for themselves less often than snacks, advent calendars and greeting cards, with only 33% of respondents saying that greeting cards are an important part of their Christmas tradition.
  • Gifts for families topped the list of most likely to purchase online, with food items ranking the lowest.

Oxford Biodynamics Announces US Launch of its 94% Accurate EpiSwitch® Prostate Screening Blood Test to Men With Prostate Cancer Risk

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023
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The current blood screening test, the PSA test, is only 55% accurate, and is considered an unreliable test by many doctors, including the NHS in the UK2.

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  • The current blood screening test, the PSA test, is only 55% accurate, and is considered an unreliable test by many doctors, including the NHS in the UK2.
  • It feels wholly appropriate that the early launch of the test coincides with Prostate Cancer Awareness month," said Dr Jon Burrows, OBD's Chief Executive Officer.
  • Reducing Unnecessary Biopsy During Prostate Cancer Screening Using a Four-Kallikrein Panel: An Independent Replication, Journal of Clinical Oncology [online], 28:15.
  • Short term outcomes of prostate biopsy in men tested for cancer by prostate specific antigen: prospective evaluation within ProtecT study.

Tide Commits to Helping 200,000 Women Launch New Businesses By 2027

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
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The move builds on an earlier milestone, when Tide announced it had onboarded 100,000 female-led businesses - 10 months ahead of its 2023 end-of-year target1.

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  • The move builds on an earlier milestone, when Tide announced it had onboarded 100,000 female-led businesses - 10 months ahead of its 2023 end-of-year target1.
  • To address this and other challenges, Tide is launching a Women in Business content series to inspire, inform and champion female Tide members.
  • Tide’s Women in Business content series will spotlight lessons from running innovative businesses, helping the community of female Tide members supercharge their ventures.
  • Tide has set a target of supporting 500,000 women-led businesses to start out by the end of 2027.

Sky Medical Technology: New study demonstrates double the rate of healing of venous leg ulcers with the geko™ device

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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
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HIGH WYCOMBE, England, March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- UK-based medical device manufacturer Sky Medical Technology (Sky) today announces the International Wound Journal has published the company's landmark multi-centre randomised self-controlled trial (RCT). The study compared standard of care (SoC) with and without the geko™ device in patients with hard-to-heal venous leg ulcers (VLUs) and reports an acceleration in the rate of healing by more than double in patients treated with the geko™ device versus SoC alone. The results offer new hope to patients suffering long-standing chronic wounds.    

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  • Results show the geko™ device, combined with multi-layer compression doubles the rate of healing vs. compression alone1.
  • Worn at the knee, the wearable geko™ device, a neuromuscular electrostimulator, increases venous, arterial and microcirculatory blood flow, transporting oxygenated blood to the wound bed accelerating wound healing.
  • HIGH WYCOMBE, England, March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- UK-based medical device manufacturer Sky Medical Technology (Sky) today announces the International Wound Journal has published the company's landmark multi-centre randomised self-controlled trial (RCT).
  • The study compared standard of care (SoC) with and without the geko™ device in patients with hard-to-heal venous leg ulcers (VLUs) and reports an acceleration in the rate of healing by more than double in patients treated with the geko™ device versus SoC alone.

Hybrid working unleashes wave of insider fraud as more than half of businesses fall victim

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Wednesday, June 22, 2022
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LONDON and NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bottomline, a leading provider of financial technology that makes business payments simple, smart, and secure, revealed today that the shift to hybrid working has left businesses seriously exposed to insider fraud1, with over half of businesses (52% in GB and 63% in the US) falling victim over the last year. These levels are likely to be significantly higher as many businesses are unaware that they have fallen foul of insider fraud, with rates expected to increase further as hybrid working becomes a permanent workplace fixture. The findings stem from Bottomline’s seventh annual Business Payments Barometer, which for the first time tracks the sentiment of US businesses, alongside their GB counterparts.

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  • These levels are likely to be significantly higher as many businesses are unaware that they have fallen foul of insider fraud, with rates expected to increase further as hybrid working becomes a permanent workplace fixture.
  • Across the board, businesses of all sizes in GB and the US have been seriously hit by fraud, with estimated losses up significantly.
  • This is especially true for small and medium-sized GB businesses who saw fraud losses rise to 53% and 63% respectively, following a decrease in fraud losses the year before.
  • Businesses, especially SMBs, have been seriously caught off guard by Covid-19 and hybrid working, leading to an unprecedented wave of fraud that hasnt been seen for years, said Paul Fannon, Managing Director, Global Business Solutions at Bottomline.