Business Support
Running your own independent business can be expensive. Sometimes it can seem unfair.
But by being part of a large community of independents, you benefit from strength in numbers which gives us the power to make a difference and offer you a range of specialist business services and exclusive deals.
You can use our in-house bespoke services, such as finance, publishing, purchasing, clearing and training, developed exclusively with your independent retail business in mind.
We also work in partnership with preferred external service providers to negotiate the best possible deals.
Latest news
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22 Feb 2012
Deadline for Young Retailers extended
The deadline for entrant to the UK Young Retailer of the Year has been extended to 9th March.
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14 Feb 2012
Full house for empty shop report
Vacancy rates in British high streets remained above 14% throughout 2011 and threaten to rise in 2012 argued the Local Data Company at a packed...
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14 Feb 2012
Get mentoring
The government has laucnhed free online training to help get thousands of experienced business people mentoring small businesses.
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13 Feb 2012
Independents ended 2011 on the up (no, really)
Independent retailers produced a strong end to a troubled 2011, according to the results from the bira sales monitor
