With the economic crisis taking its toll not just on limited companies but on partnerships and substantial owner-managed concerns, the small-scale business ... of 103,000 more sole proprietorships ...

In an ideal world, both for the economy and for owners, the UK’s 4.8 million small and medium-sized enterprises (62.7 per cent of which are sole traders) would develop ... sources of investment and ...

Small business campaigners are calling for the introduction of a new ‘Help to Grow’ style programme to help the nation’s 4m sole traders recover, as signs point to a two-tier recovery. Small Business ...

the sole traders we call to fix our leaky roof or the freelance workers providing support to bigger firms. Of the remaining 1.4 million UK businesses that employ staff, most are micro and small ...