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Improve your management skills
Members in Northern Ireland can take advantage of a heavily subsidised practical leadership and management training programme designed to help you boost your business performance, resilience and long-term growth. Help to Grow: Management is a 12-week programme which...
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Help for Hobbies
Industry charity NewstrAid has launched a funding scheme to help parents with a newstrade connection who are struggling to cover the costs of their children’s pastimes. The Help for Hobbies Children’s Recreation Fund offers up to £250 per child towards the costs...
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Review of weights and measures is a needless exercise
The Fed has branded the government’s plans to review weights and measures as a waste of time and money. The Office for Product Safety and Standards has opened...
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New blow to hard-pressed retailers as Reach and News...
The Federation of Independent Retailers (the Fed) has expressed deep dismay at the decisions by Reach and News...
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Manchester City Souvenir Special
In celebration of Manchester City winning the Premier League title, Reach has produced a one-off souvenir special to commemorate this.
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Independent retailers flock to the Fed
As spiralling costs continue to hit independent retailers hard, more and more small business owners are reaping the benefits that membership...
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HFSS Legislation Delayed until 2023
The Government has confirmed the HFSS legislation, which will see restrictions on promotions and offers for certain foods, will be delayed...
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Independent retailers welcome bank’s £9 million investment in DRS
The Federation of Independent Retailers (The Fed) has welcomed today’s news that the Scottish Investment Bank has invested...
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Enterprise Ireland’s Online Retail Scheme
Enterprise Ireland’s 2022 retail scheme has opened, and eligible businesses may receive grants of up to 80 percent of expenditures with...
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