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Retail business finances
Guides which can help your retail business to navigate financial issues with customers, suppliers, insurance and rates.
Retail start-up support
How to find the right financial and advisory support to start your retail business in Northern Ireland
Types of retail business
The various types of retail business, including convenience store, speciality store, supermarket, discount store, department store, warehouse, direct retailer and online store
Ten top tips for starting a retail business
Ten top tips to starting a retail business successfully and staying afloat in the early days of trading
Where to set up your retail business
Find the right place to set up your retail business in Northern Ireland by weighing the important options
Grow your retail business
Find out how to improve your retail business, attract more customers and grow your sales through tactics like visual merchandising and online retail.
Benefits of health and safety management systems
Management systems help control risk, reduce costs and improve your reputation, other benefits include increased morale and possible lower insurance premiums.
Who to notify if you transfer your business to a new legal structure
An overview of the different groups and organisations that need to know about your new business entity
If you cannot pay your tax bill on time
You must arrange to pay your tax bill with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) if you either miss a payment or know you cannot pay on time
Why change your business structure?
Reasons for changing your business structure
Key health and safety management legal obligations
Staying up to date with your legal responsibilities for health and safety to protect staff, customers and visitors, have liability insurance and have a policy.
Control and review your health and safety management systems
Keeping records and driving continual improvement of health and safety management through setting targets, regular reviews and audits.
Common legal structures for businesses
An overview of the most common legal structures for businesses
Re-registration of a company
How to re-register your company with Companies House to change its legal status
Legal implications of changing the legal structure of your business
The implications a change in business structure has for contracts, tax and Companies House registration details