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Wake Up to Money: 16/09/2010

16/09/2010

BBC Radio 5 Live - Wake Up to Money, 16/09/2010

Fresh retail figures for August should complete the picture of the British high street.

August's retail figures are out, The Investors Chronicle is 150 years old, the number of small business entrepreneurs has soared and why managers worry about an ageing workforce.

News and views from the business world with Mickey Clark and Andrew Verity. 

Fresh retail figures for August should complete the picture of the British high street for investors. We ask Rahul Sharma, retail analyst at Martin Currie Investment Management, what pressures the industry is facing.

Business magazine The Investors Chronicle is 150 years old. We speak to the magazine's former employee, the BBC's Business Editor Robert Peston, and the publication's editor Jonathan Eley. 

The number of small business entrepreneurs in the UK has leapt by 117% in the last five years, according to research by the global information services company Experian. We talk to Charlotte Hogg, managing director of Experian in the UK & Ireland.

Only 14% of UK managers consider their organisation well-prepared to cope with an ageing workforce, according to research by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. We interview Patrick Woodman, policy and research manager at the CMI.

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