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The Future Positive Breakfast Show #32 - 21st October
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In this bite-sized weekly episode of the Future Positive Breakfast Show, we’ll take you through the business stories of the week that you may have missed that are impacting small businesses and their trusted advisors.
Hot topics discussed this week:
1. UK inflation 10.1%, core inflation excl food & energy 6.5% & input prices rise 18% according to Kate Nicholls https://twitter.com/itvjoel/status/1582627282635870209?s=21&t=uOwU0a6ZdmQIr0453ACoiw
https://twitter.com/ukhospkate/status/1582618869822267394?s=21&t=uOwU0a6ZdmQIr0453ACoiw
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-20/the-breakfast-index-shows-fry-up-costs-20-more-than-last-year
2. Ofgem step up to help microbusinesses when handling energy suppliers & brokers https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/information-consumers/energy-advice-businesses/guidance-microbusinesses
3. Innovation is (still) alive & well
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/promoting-innovation-and-growth-the-ipo-at-work-2021-22/innovation-and-growth-report-2021-22
In 2020/21 we received a record level of trade mark applications. Overall, we received our highest ever input of 187,000 applications, and an increase of 16.1% on the previous year. Designs also saw a record year with 71,200 applications, an increase of 71.8% compared to the previous year.
https://waterinnovation.challenges.org/water-breakthrough-challenge/2022/everything-breakthrough3/
Tune in next week for more!
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