The Benelux Enterprise Awards 2019 Press Release

The UK’s Black Friday spend is forecast to be the biggest in Europe – 29% higher than Germany (the second biggest spenders) and more than Italy, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands combined.

Marketing can be done in many different ways, from social media marketing to email marketing and everything in between. If you have a business in the EU, here is how you can use marketing to attract a global audience.

Facebook stated that it will hire 10,000 European Union workers over the next five-years to work on its new computing platform. It promises to connect people virtually, but there are concerns about privacy and how the social network can gain more control over users' online lives.

There is still a certain sense that things may never been fully the same as before the world went into lockdown. With social behaviours and etiquette sharply changing, how can businesses built upon years and years of the ‘old’ normal embrace the new world that will emerge after the pandemic is brought under control?

In 2020, new regulations entered the ecommerce landscape: PSD2 Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). A part of the Payment Services Directive 2 (PDS2), it had one aim – to make digital commerce more secure.

The third national UK lockdown produced a wave of start-ups, with arts and crafts the most common type of venture, according to Direct Line business insurance new policy data.

October’s 48-hour Prime Day bonanza will top $10bn worldwide, forecasts the home delivery expert ParcelHero. It predicts UK shoppers will spend a record amount snapping up early Christmas gifts before Amazon’s strict new Brexit rules kick in.

With the UK set to leave the EU in a matter of months, leading lawyers are issuing a call to businesses across sectors to make 11th hour preparations to secure their workforces before Brexit. As of 31 December 2020, free movement will end, posing extreme challenges for main and subcontractors, which currently rely on EU migrant labour.

As the political fallout from Brexit rumbles on, Vistage’s latest confidence survey of UK SME leaders reveals that confidence is at its lowest point since its measurement began. At 97.9, this quarter’s confidence score is more than 5.6 points lower than the previous quarter, according to the Vistage CEO Confidence Index.

There is a clear disconnect between businesses and their customers on most eCommerce websites when compared to a traditional bricks-and-mortar retailer. Some people call this a lack of ‘personal touch’. According to Biteable’s marketing statistics, 72% of customers prefer to learn about products or services via video, and 81% of businesses are now using video as a marketing tool. Simply think of your video content as a sales assistant that can respond to the customer’s questions in a knowledgeable manner and guide the customer to the right product for them.