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Growth through strategic partnering
Guidance on different partnering options for your business, including joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and how to work collaboratively with another business or institution
Growth through strategic sourcing
Understand the importance of strategic sourcing, how to outsource, and choose and work with reliable suppliers to ensure the success of your business
Assessing current performance
How to measure your business performance, set the right targets and assess whether you should grow your business
Planning business growth
Guidance to help you prepare and plan for business growth, avoid common pitfalls, manage change and projects successfully, meet relevant standards and follow organisational best practice
Growth through product and service development
How to grow your business by developing new products or services
Growth through technology
Understand the key role technology can play in the development of your business
Getting started in retail
Guides which can help you to start up a retail business from finding the right idea to investing in an existing business.
Improving your retail business
Guides to help you enhance and improve your retail business through marketing, growing sales and finding suppliers.
Your retail premises
Guides to help you find and effectively manage retail premises to ensure access for all and a safe retail environment.
Retail businesses and the environment
Guides to help your retail business lessen its impact on the environment and make a real difference on climate change.
Retailing and the law
Guides which summarise common legal issues which retail businesses must be aware of and comply with.
Employing people in your retail business
Guides which can help your retail business to understand employment issues, rights and how to comply with the law.
Business premises and rates - find a case study
Insight into how real businesses deal with premises and property issues on a practical level
Standards for best business practice
Overview of the most popular technical and management standards, and how they show best business practice for business
What is a standard?
Find out what a standard is, the types of standards that exist, and whether your business needs one
Business benefits of standards
Find out how using standards can boost your business' efficiency, access to markets, compliance and competitiveness
How to show your products meet EU legal requirements
Find out if you need to meet a specific technical or management standard to sell your product in European markets
Types of risk your business faces
Understand the main types of business risk - what they mean and how they can affect your business
Strategic risk
What is strategic risk management and how to identify and mitigate strategic risks in your business
Financial risk
Understand the main types of financial risks to your business and find ways to mitigate and reduce them