Spabreaks.com boss warns on cost threats to start-ups as small firms ‘hurting’

Spabreaks.com boss warns on cost threats to start-ups as small firms ‘hurting’

Founder Abi Selby said the Government needs to offer entrepreneurs some ‘positivity’ or risk choking off start-ups.

Rugby business boss fears ‘severe impact’ of extra employment costs

THE CONCERNED boss of a Rugby heating company says small businesses will be ‘disproportionately burdened’ by extra employment costs due to come into effect next month. Lincoln Smith, Managing Director of Custom Heat, says he is facing an additional £118,000 in employment costs - around £70,000 in National Insurance Contribution increases, and the rest due to rises in the National Minimum Wage - which will ‘severely impact’ the business. But Rugb…

Startup boss warns on cost threats as small firms ‘hurting’

A startup boss has warned over the threat to UK entrepreneurship from soaring wage costs and an uncertain outlook ahead of this week’s spring statement as she said UK firms were “hurting”. Abi Selby, who co-founded the spa booking website, Spabreaks.com, 17 years ago, said the Government is risking putting start-ups off from launching their […]