E.ON is planning to hike gas and electricity bills by 11 per cent for five million customers in January, reports claim, but the supplier says it has not made a decision yet. View source website
Read more →A third of Britons have no budget in mind when they do their supermarket shop, while those that do tend to overspend by on average £27.42 on each visit. View source website
Read more →The company failed to bill households for nearly two years then threatened them with debt collectors. It failed to bill Janice Ferris (pictured) from November 2010 to July 2011. View source website
Read more →In this week’s Business Surgery, Conor Wilcock takes a look at the phenomenon of crowdsourcing In 2003, a quite delightful and intelligent chap named Henry Chesbrough – a professor of the Harvard Business School – coined the term “open innovation.” His argument was that companies should innovate
Read more →The Government said John Lewis will begin labelling products with lifetime electricity costs next year as part of a trial into changing buying behaviour. Less efficient devices are often cheaper to buy but more expensive to run. View source website
Read more →A whistleblower identified unusual trading patterns and price changes on the gas market in September – the end of the gas financial year, when data submitted by firms plays a big part in how future prices are set. View source website
Read more →As Britain braces itself for the chilly winter months, 8.5 million customers will see the cost of heating their homes rise by six per cent, as the average dual fuel bill increases from £1,238 to £1,318. View source website
Read more →Small companies, namely those employing fewer than 50 people, account for over 99% of all businesses in any country. They are run by people who know their trade. Most of them have been in existence for more than 10 years compared to the job hoppers in large
Read more →An initiative was launched today to enable pensioners to ‘recycle’ some or all of their Winter Fuel Payment to help those struggling with their energy bills this winter. View source website
Read more →How do emotions drive the choice of a supplier and how can we measure them? As business-to-business market researchers, we are inclined to believe that decision-making by buyers and specifiers is entirely rational. When has a buyer ever admitted that he or she chooses a supplier saying
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